Principal Software Engineer, GRC

Vanta is a company focused on helping businesses earn and prove trust by continuously monitoring and verifying security. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead strategic technical initiatives and enhance engineering excellence, particularly for the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) product, which streamlines workflows and improves risk management for customers.

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:

• Have played significant technical leadership roles for bigger orgs and complex projects; Our Principal Engineers typically have a decade or more of cross-org leadership experience in addition to overall years of experience
• 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