Staff Data Engineer, Vanta
$213-251k
+ Equity
AI trust management platform
Open for applications
AI trust management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$213-251k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses earn and prove trust.
Role
Who you are
- Have at least six years of experience working with data and two years of experience in Software Engineering or a related field
- Have experience with common analytics tooling (e.g. Stitch/Fivetran, Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift, dbt, Airflow, Dagster, Looker/Mode/Sigma)
- Have led an implementation of Debezium or another CDC event tracking system
- Have good working knowledge of AWS data infra systems and Terraform
- Bring a system-oriented and software engineering mindset to the Data Engineering practice. We’re looking to build frameworks that manage data, and minimize bespoke queries
- Deep knowledge of crafting dimensional and fact models in modern data fashion (experience at Amazon, Facebook, etc a plus)
- Have a passion for enabling the developer experience of data, and being obsessed with giving data super powers across the company
- Desire to lead the industry in security, anonymization, and compliance management when it comes to data warehousing
- Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
What the job involves
- As a Data Engineer, you’ll be responsible for laying the foundation for a best-in-class analytics function
- You’ll partner closely with our engineering team and business stakeholders to ensure that our analytics stack and processes meet the business needs today with an eye towards the future
- Design and implement complex data models, modeling metadata, building reports and dashboards and creating reporting tools for data science and ML products users
- Design and deploy data infrastructure needed to drive data-driven decision-making solutions
- Be the company’s expert on data administration and master data management
- Be a technical thought leader on the development of scalable data systems
- Develop front end applications to expose analytical data sets enterprise wide
- Write highly tuned, scalable SQL queries running over large-scale, heterogeneous data warehouses
- Work with the Product and Enterprise Engineering system teams to structure source systems for reporting consumption across the enterprise
- Help maintain the CDC pipeline to power customer reporting
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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