Staff Engineer, Product Engineering

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 

The Trust Product area at Vanta works on several features to help our customers prove the trust and credibility of their security programs. This includes our Third Party Risk Management product which simplifies and automates your risk processes, helping you work more efficiently and make informed risk decisions—all from one central platform.

Our Staff Software Engineers identify key strategic initiatives across engineering, deliver significant value to our customers and business, and set the tone for engineering excellence and culture. In this role on the Trust team, you'll work on initiatives with impact across some of the fastest growing areas of business at Vanta, and major impact for our largest customers.

Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company.

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! 

About the Role

As a Staff Engineer, you are expected to lead large-scale, multi-team initiatives from end to end. You will define technical direction and architecture, collaborate with leadership across Engineering, Product, and Design, and mobilize multiple pods of 6–7+ engineers to deliver complex features. You must lead with influence, mentor engineers at all levels, proactively unblock others, influence organizations to improve code quality or uplevel your team, and ship features.

Equivalent roles outside Vanta are often titled Staff, Senior Staff, Principal, or Senior Principal Engineer.

What you’ll do as a Staff Engineer Building New Products at Vanta:

• Own the technical roadmap for major product domains within the Trust org.

• Work across teams to turn ambiguous goals into aligned, well-architected execution plans.

• Lead execution by scoping, assigning, and coordinating work across multiple pods of engineers.

• Personally build the foundational pieces and unblock high-complexity work.

• Influence product strategy, grow technical talent, and define patterns and best practices org-wide.

How to be successful in this role:

• Draw upon your extensive knowledge of Product delivery and system design; Our Staff Engineers typically have a decade or more of cross-org leadership experience in addition to overall years of experience

• Strong ability to navigate ambiguity, manage stakeholder alignment, and synthesize technical direction.

• Known as a strategic leader who delivers impactful outcomes and enables others to succeed.

• Leads complex project portfolios across teams with full accountability for architecture and outcomes.

• Directly responsible for both execution coordination and high-quality personal contribution.

• Mentors engineers across the org; actively develops technical leadership in others.

• Recognized internally as a force for scale, clarity, and system-level thinking.

• 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.

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