Principal Software Engineer, GRC

Vanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will identify and solve complex problems, set technical direction for the engineering team, and lead projects that significantly impact the business.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and solve complex, high-impact problems, leading projects with multiple cross functional stakeholders, engineering leaders and engineers to deliver significant impact to our business
• Set technical direction impacting our entire engineering team, from critical systems and core product abstractions to developer productivity and hold a high bar for quality across engineering
• Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React, Node.js)
• Work on deeply ambiguous problem areas, and will tackle larger more long term challenges for the company
• Design, develop, and own new product functionality and infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, Terraform, 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

Requirements:

• Identify and solve complex, high-impact problems, leading projects with multiple cross functional stakeholders, engineering leaders and engineers to deliver significant impact to our business
• Set technical direction impacting our entire engineering team, from critical systems and core product abstractions to developer productivity and hold a high bar for quality across engineering
• Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React, Node.js)
• Work on deeply ambiguous problem areas, and will tackle larger more long term challenges for the company
• Design, develop, and own new product functionality and infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, Terraform, 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
• Have played significant technical leadership roles for bigger orgs and complex projects
• Had a good balance of customer focus, bias for action, and balancing between right long term, medium term and short term decisions
• Have experience communicating with and working closely with a large set of cross-functional stakeholders
• Have upleveled teams of engineers, mentoring and leading by example
• You are a self starter and have a mix of previous startup experience and working at scale experience, and in an environment that prioritizes a bias for action
• You have experience building architectural changes whose impact span is multi year, or have experience go very deep in technology and becoming an expert
• Have an interest in learning about security or prior experience in the space
• Experience working at rapidly scaling startups and large companies with environments that prioritize a bias for action
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact