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Staff Software Engineer, Program Structure & Trust

Vanta· Software Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Staff Engineer responsible for design, delivery, and long-term technical direction of Vanta's enterprise org model within the Governance and Compliance platform, enabling customers to structure and operate across product lines, business units, and data environments.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and multi-quarter delivery of Vanta's enterprise org model, including hierarchical product lines and business units, isolated data access and ownership, cross-cutting audit workflows, scoped approvals, and EU and GovCloud data residency support
  • Define and evolve the core abstractions that let the platform absorb structurally diverse, often conflicting enterprise requirements — solving for the general case rather than one-off customer accommodations
  • Retrofit a live production system toward a multi-tenant org structure: design safe migration paths, sequence delivery incrementally, and preserve continuity for existing customers as the architecture evolves
  • Carve out and ship meaningful customer value each quarter while progressing toward the full solution — this requires product judgment, direct engagement with enterprise customers, and the discipline to draw clean increment lines through a complex problem space
  • Drive execution across squads outside your direct area, building alignment through technical clarity and credibility rather than authority
  • Partner with Engineering leadership, Product, and Design to translate the long-term vision for enterprise structure into phased, deliverable work
  • Set the technical standard for the group — define patterns others build to, shape architecture across teams, and model the engineering excellence the Program Structure and Trust charter is organized around

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of deep backend engineering experience with a track record of leading complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives in fast-paced, product-focused environments
  • Designed platform abstractions that absorbed messy, conflicting enterprise requirements across a diverse customer base — you've solved for the general case, not the loudest customer request
  • A track record of shipping in stages: you've moved large, structurally complex problems forward incrementally, with each phase standing on its own, without getting ahead of what customers and the product can absorb
  • A history of operating effectively across squads and teams you don't own — alignment built through technical clarity and credibility, not org chart proximity
  • Deep familiarity with enterprise architectural patterns: tenancy models, role-based access control, data isolation, scoped permissions, cross-tenant operations, and access boundary design
  • Strong communication skills — you make complex systems legible to engineering leadership, product partners, and customer-facing stakeholders, in writing and in the room
  • Data residency or GovCloud exposure is a plus; ramp on this in a quarter once the core structural problems are in hand
  • Open to using AI to amplify your skills and strengthen your work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

Skills

Required:Backend engineeringEnterprise architectureCommunication

Benefits

  • Industry-competitive salary and equity
  • 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
  • Pension contribution
  • 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
  • Health & wellness stipend
  • Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
  • Flexible work hours and location
  • 21 days of Vacation Time and 80 hours of Sick Leave
  • 11 company-paid holidays
  • Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
Last updated Oct 8, 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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