Senior Platform Engineer, Vanta
Vendor Risk Management
Plus equity
Automated compliance and security provider
Open for applications
Automated compliance and security provider
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Plus equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To secure the internet and protect consumer data.
Role
Who you are
- You’ve played technical leadership roles on Infrastructure or platform teams
- You have experience with infrastructure, AWS services, and scaling platforms in fast-growing environments
- You care deeply about performance and reliability
- You’re thoughtful about trade-offs and have good product sense when creating new infrastructure
- Bonus points for experience or a strong interest in cybersecurity concepts like External Attack Surface Management (EASM), vulnerability scanning, threat intelligence, or network security principles. ️
What the job involves
- As a Senior Platform Engineer on our Vendor Risk Management team, you will own the critical infrastructure and orchestration services that power Vanta's external data scanning and risk analysis capabilities
- Our team is at the forefront of Vanta's mission to secure the internet. We focus on monitoring the external attack surface of countless organizations, which directly fuels our Vendor Risk Management (VRM) product
- The work we do is critical in providing comprehensive insights to our customers, empowering them to effectively mitigate third-party risks
- In this role, you will be the backbone of our scanning operations, ensuring our infrastructure is scalable, resilient, and highly performant, which directly enables the team to deliver timely and accurate risk intelligence
- Design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure that powers our large-scale, automated attack surface analysis engine. ⚙️
- Scale our distributed systems for asset discovery and vulnerability scanning to internet-scale, ensuring high performance and comprehensive coverage
- Engineer sophisticated monitoring and alerting systems to guarantee the reliability, speed, and integrity of our security data pipeline
- Collaborate with security researchers to rapidly deploy new scanning techniques and threat detection modules into our production environment
- Work with talented and kind engineers to make a significant impact on our customer base, enabling them to improve their security and prove it
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The security auditing process is usually very time-consuming, taking hours to complete, and it is often difficult for start-ups to invest time into such a process. Yet, the benefits of security accreditation are enormous, mainly as many such businesses are working globally and need ways to demonstrate security compliance to one another. Vanta works specifically with start-ups to help them complete and pass security audits such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
The company is a compliance portal and security monitoring platform that businesses use to assess their risk levels. Vanta carries out a pre-audit of a company's digital security and highlights areas that need to be worked on before a full analysis of all threats is carried out. Other businesses such as Datadog or PagerDuty offer similar security monitoring services, but Vanta monitors its customers throughout the year, allowing any issues to be identified and addressed early on.
Vanta has found a valuable cybersecurity niche within the giant SaaS market. Companies such as Lattice, Clubhouse, and Calm are all customers, demonstrating a growing trend for companies to manage their cybersecurity proactively, which Vanta should be able to take advantage of to further grow and develop into the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2025
$150m
SERIES D
Jul 2024
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $500.2m
Company benefits
- Health & Wellness: Vanta values the health and well-being of our teammates and offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for teammates and dependents. Vanta is excited to provide an additional range of benefits that holistically support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Work Your Way: Enjoy a remote-first setup if you're in the US, or go hybrid at our international offices
- Paid Parental Leave: Industry competitive paid parental leave for all parents
- Time Away: Industry competitive and generous PTO policy
- 401K Plan: 401k matching contribution plan
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Christina Cacioppo
(CEO)Worked in Investment at Union Square Ventures, before becoming a Professor at the School of Visual Arts. Co-founded Nebula Labs, and worked in Product Management at Dropbox.
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