Senior Fullstack Engineer, Vendor Monitoring Data at Vanta (London, United Kingdom)
Vanta· London, United Kingdom·
Role details
Industry-Competitive Salary · Equity · 100% Covered Medical, Dental, And Vision Benefits · 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave · Health & H&W Wellness Stipend · Remote Workspace, Internet, And Mobile Phone Stipend · Commuter Benefits · Pension Matching
Vanta at a glance
The leading Agentic Trust Platform, automating compliance, risk, and security proof for 16,000+ companies.
Vanta automates security compliance and GRC, continuously monitoring a company's controls and mapping the evidence to frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and FedRAMP. It connects to 400+ tools, runs 1,400+ continuous tests, and layers AI agents on top to draft policies, answer security questionnaires, and remediate failing tests.
$504M raised · latest: Series D · $150M · July 2025 · backed by Wellington Management, Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator
Summary
Drive complex fullstack projects for Vanta's Vendor Risk Management product, focusing on external attack surface scanning and risk analysis. The role involves mentoring engineering teams, building monitoring systems, and collaborating with security researchers to enhance the security data pipeline.
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. The Vendor Monitoring Data team focuses on gathering external data and conducting risk analysis as part of Vanta's Vendor Risk Management (VRM) product. Our work provides comprehensive insights that help customers mitigate third-party risks effectively.
As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you'll drive complex projects across our technical stack while mentoring our talented engineering team. This role offers a unique opportunity to delve into a hyper-focused subject area: external attack surface scanning. You'll tackle unique technical challenges and contribute directly to Vanta's impact by helping customers continuously and comprehensively monitor risks across their vendor supply chain.
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 contribute to a rapidly-scaling company.
Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on!
What you’ll do as a Senior Fullstack Engineer, Vendor risk management 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
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- 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 7+ years of full stack experience with an emphasis on backend skills
- Have played technical leadership roles for teams or complex projects
- Have strong communication and collaboration skills
- Have experience building user-facing SaaS products, ideally both for startups and enterprise users
- Have previous startup experience, or worked in an environment that prioritizes a bias for action
- Have experience building 0→1 products as well as solving large scale problems
- Have an interest in learning about security or prior experience in the space
- Experience with TypeScript and Go is a plus
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 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
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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.
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Why work at Vanta
- Culture & Values: Emphasizes a "remote-first" setup in the US and a hybrid model internationally. Core principles include "Put customers first," "Bias for action," "Win as one team," "Lead with resilience," and "Decide with frameworks."
- Remote/Hybrid Policy: Remote-first for US team members; hybrid options available at international offices (San Francisco, New York, Sydney, Dublin, London).
- Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package includes medical/dental/vision, industry-competitive paid parental leave, generous PTO, and a 401k matching plan.
- Engineering Culture: The company is building a platform where the AI Agent acts as an "experienced GRC engineer," offering a chance to work on cutting-edge AI problems in a high-growth environment. The CPO previously scaled engineering, product, and design teams at GitHub.