Senior Backend Software Engineer, Vanta
Core Platform
$179-244k
+ Equity
AI trust management platform
Job no longer available
AI trust management platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$179-244k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses earn and prove trust.
Role
Who you are
- Have at least 5 years of industry experience
- Have experience with complex infrastructure challenges related to scale, reliability, and performance
- Have played technical leadership roles for teams or complex projects
- Have an interest in learning about security or prior experience in the space
- Work with talented and kind engineers to make a significant impact on our customer base, enabling them to improve their security and prove it
- Contribute to building Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow
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
- Vanta’s product monitors the security posture for thousands of companies, pulling tens of millions of API calls of data per day, pushing information from hundreds of thousands of laptop agents, and running tests against that data continuously to identify potential security threats
- Our infrastructure and tooling need to stay ahead of exponential growth in our customer base
- 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
- Vanta engineers design and develop new product functionality and infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling, including TypeScript, React, Node.js, MongoDB, and various AWS services such as Fargate and ECS
- Vanta’s Core Platform team’s mission is to enable Vanta teams to efficiently build products for our customers
- The Core Platform is responsible for both the core infrastructure and developer productivity at Vanta
- You and your team empower other Vanta engineers to leverage cutting-edge technologies and best practices to make Vanta more performant and scalable on a platform level
- Example projects include improving our automated testing infrastructure and tooling and introducing new paradigms for background workers
- This team has a wide breadth of impact for all the other work that product engineers do. All the items we work on are compounded in their value by making it easier for engineers to diagnose and solve bugs and issues, and ship value quickly for our customers
- Design and build CI and build systems to ensure Vanta engineers are building robust product quickly
- Modernize our testing tooling and tighten iteration loops in the developer experience
- Solve upcoming scalability problems related to our build system, developer workflows / experience, and key infrastructure and services
- Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale
- Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and help engineers make the right trade-offs
- Set direction for critical infrastructure, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth
- Work with talented and kind engineers to make a significant impact on our customer base, enabling them to improve their security and prove it
- Contribute to building Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow
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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