Senior Backend Engineer, Vanta
AI Platform
$163-223k
AI trust management platform
Job no longer available
AI trust management platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$163-223k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses earn and prove trust.
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 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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