Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Vanta as a Principal Software Engineer and lead strategic technical initiatives, setting the standard for engineering excellence across multiple teams within the Platform group. You will identify and solve complex problems, set technical direction, design and develop new product functionality and infrastructure, and mentor junior team members. Success in this role requires significant technical leadership experience, a customer-focused approach, and the ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders. Vanta offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits including 100% covered medical, dental, and vision, 16 weeks of parental leave, and flexible work arrangements.

Requirements

• 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, especially with environments that prioritize a bias for action

Responsibilities

• 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
• Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering
• 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

• Industry-competitive compensation
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
• 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
• Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours and location
• Open PTO policy
• 11 paid holidays in the US
• Offices in SF, NYC, Dublin, and Sydney