Vanta

Principal Software Engineer, Program Structure

Vanta
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3 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$321k - $378k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and phased, multi-quarter delivery of Vanta’s enterprise organizational model.
  • Define core abstractions for hierarchical product lines, business units, data isolation, audit workflows, scoped approvals, and data residency.
  • Retrofit the live production system toward a multi-tenant organizational structure using safe, incremental migration paths.
  • Ship meaningful customer value in stages while applying product judgment to a complex enterprise problem space.
  • Drive technical execution and alignment across squads without direct authority.
  • Partner with Engineering leadership, Product, Design, and enterprise customers on the enterprise structure roadmap.
  • Set technical standards, shape architecture across teams, and model engineering excellence.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of deep backend engineering experience.
  • Experience leading complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives in fast-paced, product-focused environments.
  • Experience designing platform abstractions that address diverse and conflicting enterprise requirements.
  • Track record of shipping structurally complex systems incrementally, with independently valuable phases.
  • Experience operating effectively across teams and squads without direct ownership.
  • Deep familiarity with tenancy models, role-based access control, data isolation, scoped permissions, cross-tenant operations, and access boundary design.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining complex systems to technical, product, leadership, and customer-facing stakeholders.
  • Data residency or GovCloud exposure is preferred.
  • Willingness to use AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

Benefits

  • Industry-competitive salary and equity.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with employee-only premiums fully covered for most medical plans.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents.
  • Health and wellness stipend.
  • Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend.
  • Commuter benefits for employees reporting to the San Francisco and New York City offices.
  • Family planning benefits.
  • Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting.
  • Flexible PTO and 80 hours of sick time.
  • 11 company-paid holidays.
  • Virtual team-building activities, lunch-and-learns, and company-wide events.
  • Remote role with offices in San Francisco, New York City, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney.

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About Vanta

1,001-5,000 employees

Vanta is the #1 Agentic Trust Platform that helps businesses earn and prove trust. From startup to enterprise, Vanta is trusted by 15,000+ customers, including Atlassian, Duolingo, Icelandair, Ramp and Synthesia, to automate compliance, manage risk, and prove trust continuously—all from a single, AI-powered platform. - Automated Compliance: Automate evidence gathering with continuous monitoring to get you compliant and keep you secure. - Streamlined Audits: Collaborate seamlessly with auditors to help get you audit-ready, fast and hassle-free. - Risk Management: Centralize your IT risk to make informed decisions, whether you’re bringing your own program or building one from scratch. - Vendor Risk Management: Streamline vendor security reviews with AI-powered analysis and continuous monitoring of vendor attack surfaces. - Trust Center: Share your security and compliance posture with buyers with a public-facing Trust Center, and tie your security program to revenue. - Questionnaire Automation: Streamline security questionnaires by having Vanta AI take the first pass for you—so all you need to do is review, approve, and submit. - 375+ integrations: A market-leading ecosystem of over 375 integrations that powers 1,200+ automated, hourly tests, giving you continuous visibility into your compliance posture. - Vanta AI: Supercharge your team with AI-powered control mapping, evidence checks, questionnaire automation, and custom code snippets to remediate failing tests. Founded in 2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney. Investors include Sequoia, Wellington, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, J.P. Morgan, Atlassian Ventures and CrowdStrike Ventures. Vanta has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Inc.’s Best Workplaces, and Forbes’ Best Startup Employer lists.

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