Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Vanta, a company dedicated to securing the internet and protecting consumer data, as a Principal Software Engineer. You will play a key role in identifying and solving complex engineering problems, setting technical direction, and designing new product functionality and infrastructure. This position requires significant technical leadership experience, a customer-focused approach, and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders. You will mentor junior team members and contribute to a positive engineering culture. Vanta offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible work environment.

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 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
• 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