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Staff Software Engineer – Privacy & Data Security
Location: London, Remote (EMEA-based with some UK/EU office attendance)
About the Role
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. Security needs to be continuously monitored and verified—not just a one-time tally. We empower companies to build better security practices while making trust-building efficient and seamless.
Our Staff Software Engineers drive strategic technical initiatives, deliver high-value solutions for customers and the business, and embed engineering excellence. As an early hire on our growing Privacy & Data Security team in London, you’ll shape our engineering presence in Europe. Collaborating closely with Product Management, Product Design, and fellow engineers, you’ll lead privacy-focused product development, ensuring robust, scalable, and seamless experiences for all our customers.
Given our rapid growth, you’ll identify critical scalable systems to support both our technical foundation and future expansion. You’ll set high standards for engineering culture, leveraging your expertise to accelerate Vanta’s success—while helping engineers thrive in collaborative environments.
Vanta has proven product-market fit and rapid growth. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll not only contribute to cutting-edge products but also shape our engineering culture, ensuring our team—and the company—can scale effectively.
What You’ll Do
- Drive technical vision: Identify, scope, and lead large-scale technical projects, establishing scalable, performant, and reliable systems for core products
- Build foundational solutions: Design and own privacy-centric features or infrastructure, leveraging modern tooling (TypeScript, React, Node.js)
- Balanced decision-making: Leverage your expertise to make informed trade-offs between business priorities, user needs, and long-term technical health
- Collaborate on growth: Partner with privacy-focused teams, product leaders, and global staff engineers to expand Vanta’s global capabilities.
- Grow the team: Assist in hiring, onboarding, and mentoring UK/Ireland-based engineers to up-level our collective expertise
- Champion culture: Set an example for effective, collaborative engineering, fostering mentorship for junior colleagues
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What You’ll Bring
To thrive in this role, you’ll have:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, demonstrating strategic impact in complex, end-to-end systems
- Proven track record as a technical lead: Managed multi-month projects with clear architectural goals across diverse functions (e.g., privacy, security, SaaS delivery)
- SaaS expertise: Built products for both small businesses and enterprises, ensuring ease of use, scalability, and reliability
- Startup experience: Thrived in fast-paced environments where rapid iterations and agility drive innovation
- Team leadership: Depth to mentor colleagues, foster collaboration, and uphold best practices—a gait that empowers, not dictates
- Worked with rapidly scaling companies—balancing speed, focus, and quality as teams grow
- AI curiosity: Open to exploring how AI can responsibly enhance efficiencies in product, scalability, and engineering processes
- Fidelity to costs of zero trust: Comfortable with the technical and programmatic depth needed to align with Vanta’s strict compliance DNA
Why You’ll Love It at Vanta
Be rewarded fairly and cared for deeply in every area of life.
- Compensation: Competitive salary + personalised equity that satisfies you
- Health & Wellbeing:
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
- Health & wellness stipend to invest in what makes you feel your best
- Parental & Time Off Policies:
- 16 weeks paid parental leave (for all)
- 25 days annual leave (plus UK legal holiday entitlements)
- Unlimited sick leave—we want you healthy
- Flexibility & Perks:
- Home ergo workspace, internet, and phone stipend
- Commuter benefits if you work office hours
- Pension matching to bolster your long-term future
- 8 company-paid holidays alongside freedom to travel
- Growth & Connection:
- Virtual and in-person team-building, lunch & learns, and events!
- Remote-first but connected (“virtual water cooler” culture)
- Offices globally: Reside in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, or another hub in Tel Aviv or Sydney—all with fully equipped and inspiring workplaces
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Vanta’s Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
We celebrate and champion diverse backgrounds. We actively break down barriers related to race, gender identity, religion, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or neurodiversity.
You belong not just on the surface level—that foundation gets attributes of thick; you’re welcome from the inside.
About Vanta
From disruption to trust-building: We launched in 2018 following high-profile breaches. Founders recognised two urgent needs: fast-growing companies wanted security without constant toil, and modern trust-proofing was incredibly manual.
Our original philosophy remains: instead of one-time compliance checks, we focus on continuous, transparent trust. From SOC 2 → HIPAA → ISO 27001 automation, our Trust Management Platform now helps thousands of businesses instantly prove and radicate security, transparency, and regulatory rigor.
Today, Vanta ensures organisations prove their ability to safeguard sensitive data, customers and partners right alongside building it. It’s how our customers prove they’re trustworthy.
As a core team member, you’ll be shaping not just products for scalability and trust—but also the security infrastructure that empowers the companies we serve to confidently demonstrate proof of trust. Are you the fuel?
Referral Instructions
To apply, please coordinate with your referrer (internal contact); failure to do so may result in your application being rejected without review. Thank you for your understanding. If you’re unsure, reply directly to [internal contact details would appear here].
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