Staff Software Engineer, GRC

- Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for building highly performant, reliable, and customizable systems with long-term impact.

- Drive a portfolio of complex initiatives with a duration spanning multiple quarters, ensuring iterative and sustainable impact across product areas.

- Rally cross-functional teams to drive initiatives to completion, even without direct management of team members.

- Make strategic decisions that prioritize long-term success, while influencing Vanta's technical direction alongside senior engineers and leadership.

- Champion engineering excellence by continuously improving processes, methodologies, and technical practices across the organization.

- Guide teams on tough technical decisions, balancing tradeoffs and resolving conflicts.

- Address product, technical, and operational challenges with clear, impactful solutions.

- Serve as a cultural leader, modeling collaborative behaviors and mentoring engineers to elevate organizational performance.

- Over 10 years of industry experience with deep expertise in one or more technical areas (e.g., frontend, databases, distributed systems, APIs, AI, etc.).

- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, driving strategic projects and improving organizational processes in fast-paced, dynamic environments.

- Mastery in system design and software architecture, with a strong ability to balance technical considerations and execution constraints.

- Extensive experience building user-facing SaaS products, catering to both startup and enterprise users.

- Expertise in building 0→1 products and solving large-scale challenges, especially in environments that prioritize a bias for action.

- Strong leadership and mentorship experience, consistently up-leveling teams and leading by example.

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and advocate for technical decisions at all levels of the organization.