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# Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform at Vanta

- **Company:** [Vanta](https://feeny.ai/companies/vanta)
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vanta/6d2a60a8-7daf-4482-ab9a-6b87516548d0

## 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.

AI Platform builds the shared foundations that help teams across Vanta ship trustworthy AI products. We own SDKs, model integrations, agent infrastructure, and tools for evaluating and debugging AI behavior. Our work spans quality and evaluations, data and context, and the foundations behind Vanta’s agentic experiences.

We partner closely with AI product engineers to solve real customer problems, turn successful experiments into reusable capabilities, and operate them reliably in production.

How does the team impact the business? We help teams deliver AI capabilities faster, improve customer outcomes, and manage reliability, latency, and cost across Vanta’s AI products.

What gaps will this hire fill? This hire will expand our ability to turn applied AI experiments into reliable, reusable platform capabilities. They will combine hands-on implementation with evaluation, operational ownership, and close product-team partnership.

Why join this team? Your work can improve AI experiences across Vanta. Challenges include reliable agent execution, useful retrieval and context, reproducible evaluations, and tools that help engineers investigate and fix AI failures.

Growth trajectory Grow from owning a platform capability end to end to leading broader technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and shaping capabilities adopted across teams.

Visit our [Vanta Engineering Blog](https://www.vanta.com/all-categories/engineering) to learn more about what our team is working on!

What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform at Vanta:

- Build shared SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure for AI features and agentic workflows.
- Integrate durable execution infrastructure for long-running agent workflows, including checkpointing, retries, human-in-the-loop steps, and recovery from partial failures.
- Evolve our agent harness, the runtime for tool calling, context management, memory, and model orchestration.
- Develop evaluation and debugging tools that turn production failures into measurable improvements and regression coverage.
- Improve model integrations, retrieval, and context delivery to support accurate, useful AI behavior.
- Own platform capabilities through rollout and operation, including reliability, observability, performance, and secure handling of customer data.
- Partner with product teams to prototype solutions, identify common needs, and drive adoption of reusable platform capabilities.

How to be successful in this role:

- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building and operating backend services, APIs, or developer platforms.
- Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products or agentic workflows and understanding their failure modes.
- Experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration platforms and designing for idempotency, retries, and long-running state.
- Familiarity with agent harnesses and frameworks, including tool design, context management, subagents, and their tradeoffs.
- Practical evaluation experience: defining success, diagnosing failures, and measuring whether changes improve outcomes.
- Product judgment: connecting platform decisions to developer needs and customer outcomes.
- Ownership, curiosity, and clear communication across teams in a rapidly changing technical environment.
- Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify their skills and strengthen their outcomes, applying it across routine workflows, actively building fluency through experimentation, and exercising sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar.

What you can expect as a Vanta’n:

- Industry-competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
- 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness stipend
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
- Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
- Family planning benefits
- Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
- 11 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

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

#LI-remote

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.

Referral Instructions If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.

## About Vanta

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vanta provides the leading Agentic Trust Platform that automates compliance, risk management, and security proof for businesses.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, USA (with offices in New York, Dublin, London, and Sydney)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Christina Cacioppo (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) / Cybersecurity
- **Target Customers**: B2B, ranging from startups to mid-market and enterprise (16,000+ customers)
- **Mission/Purpose**: To protect consumer data and restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security continuously.

## Products & Services
- **Vanta Agentic Trust Platform**: An integrated platform with four core capabilities:
    - **Compliance**: Automates and continuously monitors compliance with 35+ frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP, HITRUST, NIST AI RMF, etc.), featuring 1,400+ automated tests and AI-powered policy generation.
    - **Risk**: Provides a unified view of internal and third-party risk, including vendor risk management (TPRM).
    - **Proof**: Enables real-time sharing of security posture through Trust Centers and automated questionnaire responses (reported to automate 93% of questionnaires).
    - **Vanta AI Agent**: A 24/7 GRC engineer that drafts policies, completes questionnaires, flags risks, remediates failed tests, and summarizes findings, saving teams an average of 4+ hours per week.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of over $300 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, J.P. Morgan, and Goldman Sachs.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Trusted by over 16,000 customers.
    - Named a Leader in *The Forrester Wave™: Governance, Risk, and Compliance Platforms, Q2 2026*.
    - Forrester noted that "Vanta’s innovation approach is unparalleled" with "disruptive product launches."
    - Reports of significant customer wins, including saving 2,000 hours annually and eliminating 10 spreadsheets for one customer.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover & Category Leader**: Vanta pioneered automated compliance for fast-growing tech companies and is now the leading platform in the space.
- **AI-Native Platform**: The Vanta AI Agent is a core differentiator, acting as a "24/7 GRC engineer" rather than a simple add-on, making it extremely sticky and efficient.
- **Breadth of Coverage**: Supports 35+ frameworks and integrates with 400+ tools, providing a single source of truth for all trust-related work.
- **Network Effects**: A large customer base and partner ecosystem (e.g., auditor portal) create a strong moat.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continuous Trust**: Moving security from a point-in-time check to a continuous, real-time state.
- **AI-Driven Automation**: Deepening the capabilities of the Vanta AI Agent to handle more complex GRC tasks autonomously.
- **Enterprise Expansion**: Catering to larger, more complex organizations with features like FedRAMP support and advanced TPRM.
- **Global Reach**: Expanding international presence (offices in Dublin, London, Sydney) to serve a global customer base.

## Why Work Here
- **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.

## Sources
1. [Vanta About Us](https://www.vanta.com/company/about)
2. [Vanta Website](https://www.vanta.com/)
3. [Vanta Careers Page](https://www.vanta.com/company/careers)
4. [Vanta - What is Vanta?](https://www.vanta.com/resources/what-is-vanta)
5. [Vanta Jobs on Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vanta/)

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