Senior Software Engineer, Foundations

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 

The Foundations team sits at the heart of Vanta’s architecture and is critical to unlocking current and future Vanta products. We fetch, process, and serve the core resource and evidence data that powers Vanta. As a member of this team, you’ll work on the source-of-truth systems that enable core Vanta compliance and auditing experiences.

We’re looking for a senior backend engineer who thrives on shipping quickly, solving real customer problems, and building reliable systems that scale.

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! 

What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta:

• Improve the scalability and reliability of our core data systems, ensuring they’re robust in the face of growth.

• Help define and evolve how we model, store, and query resource data across Vanta.

• Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams to understand user needs and prioritize impactful work.

• Ship quickly and experiment thoughtfully to validate ideas and drive product velocity.

• Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team members

• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation

• Drive initiatives to increase operational posture and execution quality across the engineering organization

How to be successful in this role:

• Have 8+ years of experience

• Be comfortable operating robust distributed systems and navigating scaling challenges. Have familiarity with event-driven architecture.

• Care deeply about understanding and solving customer problems.

• Work well in environments that value decisive action and getting things done, and bias towards shipping quickly to validate ideas and experiment rather than building a perfect solution.

• Have led meaningful technical projects from concept to completion

• 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 you can expect as a Vanta'n:

• Industry-competitive salary and equity

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans

• 16 weeks fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents

• Health & wellness stipend

• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend

• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office

• Family planning benefits

• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting

• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time

• 11 company-paid holidays

• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!

• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

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At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged. 

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.

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