Staff Software Engineer, AI and Data Risk

Vanta; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

16 weeks parental leave

Remote workspace stipend

Pension matching

Annual leave 25 days

Job summary

Vanta is seeking a Staff Engineer to help grow our engineering presence in Europe from London, with a remote-first approach and optional in-office 2–3 days per week for London-area engineers.

You will identify and lead large technical projects, build scalable privacy, AI governance features, and set the direction for multiple teams to accelerate product development and customer experiences.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of industry experience as a software engineer.
• Experience as a technical lead for large projects spanning multiple teams and functions.
• Built systems with impact beyond immediate team, including shared infrastructure or platform decisions.
• Experience delivering successful SaaS products for startup and enterprise users.
• Previous startup experience or work in action-biased environments.
• Mentored and elevated teams of engineers by example.

Responsibilities

• Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects to evolve core products at scale.
• Design, develop, and own new product functionality and infrastructure with TypeScript/React/Node.js.
• Make tradeoffs balancing business priorities, user experience, and solid technical foundations.
• Set technical direction spanning multiple teams in privacy and AI governance spaces.
• Lead interviewing, hiring, and onboarding to grow the UK/Ireland engineering footprint.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering culture and excellence across teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

SaaS engineering

Mentoring

System design

Team collaboration

Tools

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Job description

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.

Our Staff Software Engineers identify key strategic technical initiatives, deliver significant value to our customers and business, and set the tone for engineering excellence and culture. As a Staff Software Engineer on the team based in London, you will play a key role in growing our engineering presence in Europe. You'll partner with product management, product design, and your growing engineering team to drive the discovery and development of privacy, AI, and risk management features that expand Vanta’s value for its customers - working in a domain where technical decisions carry real compliance and data-governance weight, not just product tradeoffs. Your work will accelerate product development and create a consistent customer experience for all of our customer segments.

Vanta’s team and technology surface are growing quickly, and it’s essential that we invest in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale with our business.

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.

This role is remote-first. For engineers based in the London area, we ask for 2-3 days per week in the office. For engineers based elsewhere in the UK/Ireland, we expect occasional travel to London (roughly once per quarter, <20% of your time).

Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We’d love for you to join us!

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

• Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for core products to evolve and scale into highly performant, reliable, and customizable systems
• Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React, Node.js)
• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
• Set technical direction that shapes how multiple teams build in the privacy and AI governance spaces - not just a single project's outcome
• Help stand up and shape engineering practices as we grow our footprint in the UK/Ireland, including interviewing, hiring, and onboarding new teammates
• Act as a cultural beacon, setting a high bar for engineering culture and excellence, and multiply the impact of the teams around you through mentorship and technical leadership

How to be successful in this role:

• At least 10 years of industry experience as a software engineer
• Served as a technical lead for large projects (6+ months in length), including defining the roadmap for complex projects spanning multiple teams and functions
• Have set technical direction or built systems whose impact extended beyond your immediate team - e.g., shared infrastructure, cross-team standards, or platform decisions other teams built on
• Built successful SaaS products for both startup and enterprise users
• Have previous startup experience, or worked in an environment that prioritizes a bias for action
• Upleveled teams of engineers by mentoring and leading by example
• Experience working at rapidly scaling startups and large companies, especially with environments that prioritize a bias for action

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 and lunch allowance for team members who attend the office
• Pension matching
• 25 days of Annual Leave per year and unlimited sick time
• 8 company-paid holidays
• Virtual team-building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.

Now more than ever, making security continuous - not just a point-in-time check - is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust - all in a way that's real-time and transparent.