Staff Engineer, Vendor Risk Management

Summary

Join Vanta's Vendor Risk Management (VRM) team as a Staff Software Engineer and contribute to building a solution that continuously retrieves and enriches vendor data. You will identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, influence product feature development, and make effective tradeoffs considering business priorities and technical sustainability. This role requires 10+ years of industry experience, including leading complex projects and experience with system design, data modeling, and data pipelines. Vanta offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits (including 100% covered medical, dental, and vision, 16 weeks of parental leave, and flexible work arrangements), and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry experience
• Experience leading large/complex projects that have spanned over multiple quarters or across multiple teams or functions
• Experience with driving system design/architecture and data modeling for one or more product areas
• Experience with data pipelines and data systems
• Experience building user-facing Saas products, ideally both for startups and enterprise users
• Experience building 0→1 products as well as solving large scale problems especially in environments that prioritize bias for action
• Extensive mentorship experience; i.e.up leveling teams, leading by example

Responsibilities

• Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for building highly performant, reliable, and customizable systems
• Influence the development of high-ROI product features and supporting infrastructure to accelerate the roadmap and land impact faster
• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Act as a cultural beacon, role modeling effective and collaborative behaviors and upleveling engineers across the organization

Preferred Qualifications

• TL experience is a plus
• Experience with ML and AI is a plus

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