Principal Software Engineer, Vanta
GRC
+ Equity
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AI trust management platform
Open for applications
AI trust management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses earn and prove trust.
Role
Who you are
- Have played significant technical leadership roles for bigger orgs and complex projects
- Had a good balance of customer focus, bias for action, and balancing between right long term, medium term and short term decisions
- Have experience communicating with and working closely with a large set of cross-functional stakeholders
- Have upleveled teams of engineers, mentoring and leading by example
- You are a self starter and have a mix of previous startup experience and working at scale experience, and in an environment that prioritizes a bias for action
- You have experience building architectural changes whose impact span is multi year, or have experience go very deep in technology and becoming an expert
- Have an interest in learning about security or prior experience in the space
- Experience working at rapidly scaling startups and large companies with environments that prioritize a bias for action
What the job involves
- As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll identify key engineering wide, org-level strategic technical initiatives and set the tone for overall engineering excellence and culture.
- This role focuses on our Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) product, which helps customers scale their GRC programs with streamlined workflows, AI, and continuous control monitoring
- We are revolutionizing the way customers operate their programs through collaboration, audit experience, personnel compliance, reporting and IT risk
- Identify and solve complex, high-impact problems, leading projects with multiple cross functional stakeholders, engineering leaders and engineers to deliver significant impact to our business
- Set technical direction impacting our entire engineering team, from critical systems and core product abstractions to developer productivity and hold a high bar for quality across engineering
- Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React, Node.js)
- Work on deeply ambiguous problem areas, and will tackle larger more long term challenges for the company
- Design, develop, and own new product functionality and infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, Terraform, Node.js)
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team members
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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