Vanta · 6 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer, GRC
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/StaffVanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead strategic technical initiatives for the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) product, focusing on improving customer workflows and compliance processes through innovative engineering solutions.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)ComplianceCyber SecurityInternetSoftware
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
Qualification
Required
Have played significant technical leadership roles for bigger orgs and complex projects
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
Benefits
100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents
Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours and location
Open PTO policy
11 paid holidays in the US
Company
Vanta
Vanta is a trust management platform that automates compliance and risk management.
Founded in 2018
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Vanta has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (23)
2024 (6)
2023 (4)
2022 (10)
2021 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$503MKey Investors
Wellington ManagementSequoia CapitalCrowdStrike
2025-07-23Series D· $150M
2024-07-24Series C· $150M
2023-05-10Series B
Leadership Team
Christina Cacioppo
Cofounder and CEO
David Eckstein
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-12-20
Business Wire
2025-11-18
Company data provided by crunchbase