Senior Backend Engineer, Vanta
AI Platform
$163-223k
Automated compliance and security provider
Job no longer available
Automated compliance and security provider
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$163-223k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To secure the internet and protect consumer data.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of industry experience as a software engineer
- You have experience designing, implementing, and scaling platform products for internal or external developers, including solving reliability, performance, and monitoring problems
- You have built data pipelines from the ground up, scaled them multiple times, and can think of the right tradeoffs in design, architecture, developer experience, and performance
- Previous experience or a strong interest in ML/AI systems, evaluating quality, and using state-of-the-art AI technology to solve user problems
- You have worked at rapidly scaling startups and large companies, especially with environments that prioritize a bias for action
- You are action-driven, willing to roll up your sleeves and engage directly with users. While you bring strong opinions, you prioritize building a platform that meets users where they are
What the job involves
- As a senior AI platform engineer at Vanta, you will play a crucial role in shaping Vanta’s AI offerings, improving our systems, and setting technical strategy for our end-to-end ML/AI architecture
- You’ll be part of the core AI team, working alongside a multidisciplinary group of product engineers, machine learning engineers, product managers, and security and compliance experts to implement, scale, and maintain data pipelines that accelerate AI innovations
- In this role, you’ll build solid infrastructure foundations and high-leverage developer tools that empower Vanta’s engineers to create and enhance high-quality AI products efficiently
- Work closely with other engineers at Vanta to understand their pain points in AI development and identify opportunities for improvements
- Design, build, and improve AI infrastructure and tooling, such as offline and online evaluation, data pipelines for model training, and vector search capabilities
- Design, build, and improve unified AI services such as document parsing, search, LLM gateways
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Set an example for effective, collaborative engineering culture, and help 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 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.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
38% female employees
20% employee growth in 12 months
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 values
- Put customers first: We center our customers and their needs in our work, and invest in long-term relationships with them
- Presume good intent: We naturally support and uplift our teammates and partners. We are kind to and respectful of Vanta’ns, partners, customers, and even competitors - and we presume good intent, especially with teammates.
- Bias for action: We make decisions and act quickly even in the face of uncertainty. When we get new information, we’re comfortable with reversing decisions as long as we move quickly so we can iterate and learn
- Lead with resilience: We don’t let day-to-day volatility knock us off course - we operate with resilience and fortitude. We see rapid change as an opportunity to continue redefining an industry in service of our customers
- Decide with frameworks: We develop and use frameworks to evaluate alternatives neutrally, focus requests for feedback, explain the “why” behind decisions, and ensure that similar decisions in the future are made consistently
- Do what it says on the tin: We hold ourselves to the highest standards, and are truthful, humble, and accountable, especially when we (inevitably) make mistakes along the way
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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