Senior Fullstack Engineer, Vanta
Vendor Risk Management
Offers equity
AI trust management platform
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AI trust management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Offers equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses earn and prove trust.
Role
Who you are
- Have 7+ years of full stack experience with an emphasis on backend skills
- Have played technical leadership roles for teams or complex projects
- Have strong communication and collaboration skills
- Have experience building user-facing SaaS products, ideally both for startups and enterprise users
- Have previous startup experience, or worked in an environment that prioritizes a bias for action
- Have experience building 0→1 products as well as solving large scale problems
- Have an interest in learning about security or prior experience in the space
- Experience with TypeScript and Go is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you'll drive complex projects across our technical stack while mentoring our talented engineering team
- This role offers a unique opportunity to delve into a hyper-focused subject area: external attack surface scanning
- You'll tackle unique technical challenges and contribute directly to Vanta's impact by helping customers continuously and comprehensively monitor risks across their vendor supply chain
- Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer
- We're growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and contribute to a rapidly-scaling company
- Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for core products to evolve and scale into highly performant, reliable, and customizable systems
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- 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
- Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to deliver significant impact to our business
- Set direction for critical technical surface areas, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth
- Contribute to building Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow
Application process
- If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf
Salary benchmarks
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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