Principal Software Engineer – Program Structure

🕒 October 14, 2025

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Vanta

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

📋 Compliance

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

💰 $40M Series B on 2022-10

Compliance • Security • SaaS

Vanta is a trust management platform that streamlines compliance workflows and enhances security programs for businesses. By leveraging automation, Vanta helps companies achieve and maintain compliance with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR. It offers solutions for companies of all sizes, from startups to enterprises, ensuring security and compliance at scale. With integrations with over 375 tools, Vanta leverages AI to simplify tasks such as questionnaire automation and vendor risk management. Vanta empowers service providers and auditors to deliver efficient and satisfactory experiences, helping businesses build trust with their clients and partners.

📋 Description

• Own the design and multi-quarter delivery of Vanta's enterprise organizational model • Build hierarchical product lines and business units, isolated data access and ownership, cross-cutting audit workflows, scoped approvals, and EU and GovCloud data residency support • Define and evolve core abstractions for diverse and conflicting enterprise requirements • Retrofit a live production system toward a multi-tenant organizational structure • Design safe migration paths and sequence incremental delivery while preserving continuity for existing customers • Ship meaningful customer value each quarter through clear incremental product phases • Engage directly with enterprise customers • Drive execution across squads through technical clarity and credibility • Partner with Engineering leadership, Product, and Design on phased deliverables • Set technical standards, define reusable patterns, shape architecture across teams, and model engineering excellence

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of deep backend engineering experience • Track record of leading complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives in fast-paced, product-focused environments • Experience designing platform abstractions for conflicting enterprise requirements across a diverse customer base • Track record of shipping large, structurally complex problems incrementally • Experience operating effectively across squads and teams without direct ownership • Deep familiarity with tenancy models, role-based access control, data isolation, scoped permissions, cross-tenant operations, and access boundary design • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Data residency or GovCloud exposure is a plus • Open to using AI to amplify skills and improve efficiency and impact

🏖️ Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity • 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage • Pension contribution • 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents • Health & wellness stipend • Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend • Flexible work hours and location • 21 days of Vacation Time and 80 hours of Sick Leave • 11 company-paid holidays • Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events