Principal Software Engineer
Rad AI$190,000 - $240,000/year
- Full Time
- Expert & Leadership (9+ years)
$285,000 – $335,000Compensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Enterprise Software, CybersecurityIndustries
Position Overview
- Location Type: Remote
- Job Type: Full-Time
- Salary: $285K - $335K
Vanta is dedicated to securing the internet and protecting consumer data. They empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll identify key engineering-wide, org-level strategic technical initiatives and set the tone for overall engineering excellence and culture. This role will be focused on the Platform group, impacting 6+ different teams and Vanta’s products and engineering teams. The Platform group’s mission is to enable engineering at Vanta by building shared product services, frontend components and design system, shared backend infrastructure, internal developer tooling, and other cross-cutting projects.
Requirements
- Significant technical leadership roles in larger organizations and complex projects.
- Good balance of customer focus, bias for action, and balancing between long-term, medium-term, and short-term decisions.
- Experience communicating and working closely with a large set of cross-functional stakeholders.
- Ability to uplevel teams of engineers, mentoring and leading by example.
- Self-starter with a mix of startup and scale experience.
- Interest in learning about security or prior experience in the space.
Responsibilities
- Identify and solve complex, high-impact problems, leading projects with multiple cross-functional stakeholders, engineering leaders, and engineers to deliver significant impact to the business.
- Set technical direction impacting the entire engineering team, from critical systems and core product abstractions to developer productivity.
- Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, Terraform, Node.js).
- Work on deeply ambiguous problem areas and tackle larger, long-term challenges for the company.
- Design, develop, and own new product functionality and infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React, 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.
Application Instructions
- Details not provided in the job description.
Company Information
- Company: Vanta
- Mission: To secure the internet and protect consumer data.
Skills
TypeScript
Terraform
Node.js
Problem-Solving
Leadership
Communication
Cross-functional Collaboration
Engineering Design
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