Vanta

Backend Senior Software Engineer, Identity

United States

$211,000 – $244,000Compensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Cybersecurity, Software Development, Cloud InfrastructureIndustries

Position Overview

  • Location Type: Remote
  • Job Type: FullTime
  • Salary: $211K - $244K

Vanta is dedicated to securing the internet and protecting consumer data. We empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale. Vanta’s product monitors the security posture for thousands of companies, pulling tens of millions of API calls of data per day, pushing information from hundreds of thousands of laptop agents, and running tests against that data continuously to identify potential security threats. Our infrastructure and tooling need to stay ahead of exponential growth in our customer base.

Requirements

  • (Details not provided in the original job description)

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to enable our business and team to scale.
  • Collaborate with Security to ensure Vanta’s platform implements best practices for customer data.
  • Support design reviews, communicate constraints, and help engineers make the right trade-offs.
  • Act as a cultural beacon, setting an example for effective, collaborative engineering and helping mentor junior team members.
  • Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience.
  • Design composable and extensible systems for complex user data modeling.
  • Support the evolution toward policy-based authorization.
  • Establish clean interface contracts for identity services.
  • Tackle complex challenges at the intersection of security, scalability, and user experience.

Company Information

Vanta’s product monitors the security posture for thousands of companies, pulling tens of millions of API calls of data per day, pushing information from hundreds of thousands of laptop agents, and running tests against that data continuously to identify potential security threats. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on!

Skills

API Design
Security
Scalability
User Data Modeling
Policy-Based Authorization
System Design
Collaborative Engineering
Mentoring
Trade-off Analysis

Vanta

Automates SOC 2 compliance for businesses

About Vanta

Vanta simplifies the process of obtaining and maintaining SOC 2 certification, which is essential for organizations that manage sensitive customer data. The company offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that automates numerous checks to ensure that security controls are effective and compliant with industry standards. This automation helps small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and tech companies monitor risks and vulnerabilities continuously, significantly reducing the time and cost associated with achieving SOC 2 compliance. Vanta's subscription-based model provides clients with a more efficient and cost-effective way to maintain compliance compared to traditional methods. The goal of Vanta is to transform the compliance process, allowing organizations to focus on their core operations while enhancing their security posture.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2018Year Founded
$343.4MTotal Funding
SERIES_CCompany Stage
Enterprise Software, CybersecurityIndustries
501-1,000Employees

Benefits

100% Benefits Coverage
Flexible & Remote Work
Paid Parental Leave
Unlimited PTO
Health & Wellness
401(k)

Risks

Emerging competitors like ComplyCube could challenge Vanta's market position.
Healthcare data breaches may increase demand for more robust security measures.
Reliance on partnerships like HITRUST poses risks if standards evolve significantly.

Differentiation

Vanta automates up to 90% of audit preparation, reducing compliance costs significantly.
The platform offers real-time insights, enhancing trust and streamlining security reviews.
Vanta's HITRUST e1 solution automates 80% of requirements, ensuring continuous compliance.

Upsides

Vanta secured $150M in Series C funding, boosting its growth potential.
Partnership with HITRUST enhances Vanta's credibility in the healthcare sector.
Rising demand for automated compliance solutions supports Vanta's market expansion.

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