Top Benefits
About the 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
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
About Vanta
Vanta is the leading trust management platform that helps simplify and centralize security for organizations of all sizes. Thousands of companies including Atlassian, Omni Hotels, Quora, and ZoomInfo rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust—all in a way that's real-time and transparent. Founded in 2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney.
Top Benefits
About the 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
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
About Vanta
Vanta is the leading trust management platform that helps simplify and centralize security for organizations of all sizes. Thousands of companies including Atlassian, Omni Hotels, Quora, and ZoomInfo rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust—all in a way that's real-time and transparent. Founded in 2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney.