Senior Security Engineer

Vanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will own impactful projects, ensuring the effectiveness of the security team and contributing expertise across various functions within the company.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in team exercises to identify potential security risks, including threat modeling and tabletop scenarios
• Contribute to complex prioritization discussions around which risks are the most important to solve next
• Plan projects to address the risks we prioritize, and coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders across the company to execute those projects
• Build maintainable programs to implement operational excellence where ongoing work is needed to achieve our goals (e.g. vulnerability management)
• Partner with engineering teams to architect secure software, address security concerns, and build a strong security culture
• Build, customize, and run tools to increase the maturity of our security program without adding undue friction to the company’s operations
• Support ongoing bug bounty and penetration testing programs
• Establish and maintain a network of security champions
• Understand security knowledge gaps of the development organization and help to deliver training to address gaps
• Provide input into architectural discussions to enable teams to innovate in a secure and repeatable manner

Requirements:

• A track record of independent ownership of areas of responsibility
• Experience with threat modeling, red teaming, penetration testing, or other means of identifying security issues
• Experience with software development and the ability to read code to identify security issues
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with deep developer empathy
• Highly organized project management skills
• 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