Staff Software Engineer, Vanta
GRC Products
$238-280k
Offers Equity
AI trust management platform
Open for applications
AI trust management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$238-280k
Offers Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses earn and prove trust.
Role
Who you are
- Over 10 years of industry experience with deep expertise in one or more technical areas (e.g., frontend, databases, distributed systems, APIs, AI, etc.)
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, driving strategic projects and improving organizational processes in fast-paced, dynamic environments
- Mastery in system design and software architecture, with a strong ability to balance technical considerations and execution constraints
- Extensive experience building user-facing SaaS products, catering to both startup and enterprise users
- Expertise in building 0→1 products and solving large-scale challenges, especially in environments that prioritize a bias for action
- Strong leadership and mentorship experience, consistently up-leveling teams and leading by example
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and advocate for technical decisions at all levels of the organization
What the job involves
- The GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) organization is the primary org responsible for developing and maintaining Vanta's core product offerings
- These teams are at the heart of Vanta moving upmarket to support enterprise customers and build products that enable our customers’ existing security and compliance programs to integrate seamlessly with Vanta, giving them invaluable insights and recommendations to continue to operate, mature and evolve their programs
- As a Staff Software Engineer at Vanta, you will play a critical role in driving the long-term technical strategy, leading complex initiatives, and making high-impact decisions that affect your product area and the broader engineering organization
- You will set the tone for engineering excellence and culture
- This role involves a mix of hands-on development, leadership, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration
- You will work closely with engineering leadership and product teams to ensure the alignment of systems with Vanta’s technical strategy, and you will actively influence key decisions across the organization
- Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for building highly performant, reliable, and customizable systems with long-term impact
- Drive a portfolio of complex initiatives with a duration spanning multiple quarters, ensuring iterative and sustainable impact across product areas
- Rally cross-functional teams to drive initiatives to completion, even without direct management of team members
- Make strategic decisions that prioritize long-term success, while influencing Vanta’s technical direction alongside senior engineers and leadership
- Champion engineering excellence by continuously improving processes, methodologies, and technical practices across the organization
- Guide teams on tough technical decisions, balancing tradeoffs and resolving conflicts
- Address product, technical, and operational challenges with clear, impactful solutions
- Serve as a cultural leader, modeling collaborative behaviors and mentoring engineers to elevate organizational performance
Our take
The security auditing process is usually very time-consuming, taking hours to complete, and it is often difficult for startups 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 startups 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's latest $150M raise, boosting its valuation to $4.15B, highlights the company's rapid growth and strong market position. With AI-driven automation, expanding government partnerships, and strategic acquisitions on the horizon, Vanta is scaling quickly while solving real customer problems. Backed by a talented leadership team and a growing customer base, the company looks set to continue its upward trajectory and build a lasting, sustainable business.
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
(Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Vanta in 2017, Christina worked in Product Management for Dropbox. She was also a Professor at the School of Visual Arts and worked on the Investment Team at Union Square Ventures.
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