Senior Backend Engineer, Vendor Risk Management - London

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. 

As a Senior Backend Engineer on our Vendor Risk Management team, you will own the critical backend services and infrastructure that power Vanta's external data scanning and risk analysis capabilities.

Our team is at the forefront of Vanta's mission to secure the internet. We focus on monitoring the external attack surface of countless organizations, which directly fuels our Vendor Risk Management (VRM) product. The work we do is critical in providing comprehensive insights to our customers, empowering them to effectively mitigate third-party risks. In this role, you will be the backbone of our scanning operations, ensuring our infrastructure is scalable, resilient, and highly performant, which directly enables the team to deliver timely and accurate risk intelligence.

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What you’ll do as a Senior Backend Engineer, Vendor risk management at Vanta:

• Design, build, and operate the backend services that power our large-scale, automated attack surface analysis engine.

• Build our distributed systems for asset discovery and vulnerability scanning, ensuring high performance and comprehensive coverage.

• Engineer sophisticated monitoring and alerting systems to guarantee the reliability, speed, and integrity of our security data pipeline.

• Collaborate with security researchers to rapidly deploy new scanning techniques and threat detection modules into our production environment.

• Work with talented and kind engineers to make a significant impact on our customer base, enabling them to improve their security and prove it

• Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to deliver significant impact to our business

• Set direction for critical technical surface areas, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth

• Contribute to building Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow

How to be successful in this role:

• Have at least 8 years of industry experience

• You have experience with infrastructure, AWS services, and scaling platforms in fast-growing environments

• You’re thoughtful about trade-offs and have good product sense when creating new infrastructure

• Bonus points for experience or a strong interest in cybersecurity concepts like External Attack Surface Management (EASM), vulnerability scanning, threat intelligence, or network security principles.

• Have played technical leadership roles for teams or complex projects

• Have previous startup experience, or worked in an environment that prioritizes a bias for action

• Have previous experience working on greenfield projects

• 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

What you can expect as a Vanta'n:

• Industry-competitive salary and equity

• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage

• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents Health & wellness stipend

• Remote workspace, internet, and mobile phone stipend

• Commuter benefits for team member