Senior Fullstack Engineer, Vendor Risk Management

Vanta · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom · Software Engineering

Senior Fullstack Engineer role at Vanta, focusing on Vendor Risk Management (VRM) and external attack surface scanning. The role involves leading complex technical projects, engineering monitoring and alerting systems for a security data pipeline, and collaborating with security researchers to deploy new scanning techniques and threat detection modules. This is a full-stack role with an emphasis on backend skills and technical leadership, contributing to a rapidly scaling SaaS product in the security domain.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for core products to evolve and scale into highly performant, reliable, and customizable systems
  2. Engineer sophisticated monitoring and alerting systems to guarantee the reliability, speed, and integrity of our security data pipeline.
  3. Collaborate with security researchers to rapidly deploy new scanning techniques and threat detection modules into our production environment.
  4. Lead complex projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers to deliver significant impact to our business
  5. Set direction for critical technical surface areas, enabling us to stay ahead of continued rapid growth

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of full stack experience with an emphasis on backend skills
  • technical leadership roles for teams or complex projects
  • strong communication and collaboration skills
  • building user-facing SaaS products
  • startup experience, or worked in an environment that prioritizes a bias for action
  • building 0→1 products as well as solving large scale problems

Nice to have

  • interest in learning about security or prior experience in the space
  • TypeScript
  • Go

What the JD emphasized

  • 7+ years of full stack experience
  • played technical leadership roles
  • building 0→1 products
  • solving large scale problems