Senior Backend Software Engineer, Vanta
GRC Policies
$207-244k
Offers Equity
Automated compliance and security provider
Be an early applicant
Automated compliance and security provider
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$207-244k
Offers Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To secure the internet and protect consumer data.
Role
Who you are
- Have at least 8 years of industry experience with backend development
- Proven ability to design clean, effective internal APIs and services
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript, GraphQL, and MongoDB
- Demonstrated leadership of significant technical projects from inception through delivery
- A pragmatic approach to problem solving, with the ability to assess when to build versus buy, identify true customer needs, and execute with iteration in mind
- A product-minded engineer who empathizes with users and is driven to solve their problems
- Experience in building both early-stage (0 to 1) and scaling (1 to 10) systems with strong execution skills
- Previous experience applying AI in products, or a strong interest in exploring this space
What the job involves
- Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale
- As a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to provide a strong foundation for our infrastructure to scale with our business
- You will also drive complex projects across our technical stack and mentor our talented engineering team
- Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth
- The GRC Policies team sits at the heart of Vanta’s product, powering the creation, management, and tracking of compliance policies throughout their lifecycle
- This team is at the forefront of innovation, incorporating AI to enhance policy workflows and elevate our customers’ overall compliance programs
- This is a unique opportunity to blend impactful software engineering with cutting-edge applied AI
- Design APIs from first principles, ensuring they are intuitive and usable by both code and AI agents
- Make thoughtful trade-offs that balance business objectives, user experience, and long-term technical sustainability
- Mentor and guide fellow engineers, promoting best practices across the team
- Lead initiatives that strengthen operational excellence and raise the bar on engineering quality across the organization
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 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$150m
SERIES C
Sep 2022
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $353m
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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