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Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Risk

Vanta· Software Engineering
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Remote$195k - $263kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior fullstack engineer focused on risk, AI-driven workflows, and data governance within Vanta's Trust Graph; leads end-to-end product engineering across the stack to turn ambiguous problems into high-quality user experiences and scalable systems.

Responsibilities

  • Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for core products to evolve and scale into highly performant, reliable, and customizable systems
  • Own customer-facing product experiences from understanding the user problem and shaping the solution through implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration
  • Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
  • Build reliable, secure systems that connect and interpret data across people, agents, assets, controls, vendors, and other critical business context
  • Partner with product, design, domain experts, and other engineers to bring AI-powered workflows from exploration to production, with a high bar for quality, explainability, and customer trust
  • Use AI thoughtfully throughout the development lifecycle to prototype, build, test, and learn faster, while maintaining a high bar for quality, security, and maintainability
  • Work with talented and kind engineers to make a significant impact on our customer base, enabling them to improve their security and prove it
  • Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to deliver significant impact to our business
  • Set direction for critical technical surface areas, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth
  • Contribute to building Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow

Qualifications

  • Have 7+ years of full stack experience with an emphasis on backend skills
  • Have played technical leadership roles for teams or complex projects
  • Have strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Have experience building user-facing SaaS products, ideally both for startups and enterprise users
  • Have previous startup experience, or worked in an environment that prioritizes a bias for action
  • Have experience building 0→1 products as well as solving large scale problems
  • Have an interest in learning about security, risk, privacy, or AI governance, or prior experience in one or more of these spaces
  • Experience with TypeScript and Go is a plus. Experience building AI-powered product experiences, evaluating AI quality, or using modern AI development tools is also valuable, but not required.

Skills

Required:Full stack developmentBackend developmentCommunication & collaboration
Nice to have:AI/ML collaborationSecurity/Risk knowledge

Benefits

  • Industry-competitive salary and equity
  • 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
  • 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
  • Health & wellness stipend
  • Remote workspace, internet, and mobile phone stipend
  • Commuter benefits for team members who attend the office
  • Pension matching
  • 25 days of Annual Leave per year and unlimited sick time
  • 8 company-paid holidays
  • Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Automate compliance, manage risk, and accelerate trust with AI

Vanta automates the complex and time-consuming process of SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, and GDPR compliance certification. Automate your security monitoring in weeks instead of months.

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