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.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Self-Serve Team, you’ll be part of the Platform organization at Vanta, working horizontally across many areas of the product. Compliance is a complex and ever-changing space—regulations are dense, requirements vary, and for most companies, achieving compliance for the first time feels overwhelming. Our team’s mission is to make this process simpler, clearer, and faster.
You’ll help drive customer activation, engagement, and retention by building features and tools that demystify compliance. The work you do will guide customers toward first-time compliance by breaking down complexity into approachable steps, reducing friction, and accelerating their journey with AI-powered experiences. From automating repetitive tasks to surfacing intelligent insights, you’ll make it easier for companies to understand what they need to do, and help them reach compliance with confidence.
Beyond direct customer impact, your contributions will strengthen Vanta’s platform by developing reusable patterns and primitives that other teams can leverage to drive activation across their own areas. You’ll also play a key role in enabling new business opportunities by building out patterns that support product trials, empowering prospects to try before they buy and making compliance accessible from day one. Finally, you’ll contribute to in-app purchasing and integrations—both for Vanta’s own products and third-party offerings—so customers can manage all of their compliance needs in one place.
Compliance is complex—but with your work on the Self-Serve team, we’ll make it feel achievable.
Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on!
Please note we are only able to hire in Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia.
What you’ll do as a Software Engineer at Vanta:
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
Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React, Node.js)
Work with talented and kind engineers to make a significant impact on our customer base, enabling them to improve their security and prove it
Contribute to building Vanta’s engineering culture as we grow
How to be successful in this role:
Have at least 5 years of industry experience
Have played technical leadership roles for teams or complex projects
Have previous startup experience, or worked in an environment that prioritizes a bias for action
Have previous experience working on greenfield projects
Have an interest in learning about security or prior experience in the space
What you can expect as a Vantan in Canada:
Industry-competitive salary and equity
100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
Pension contribution
16 weeks fully paid parental leave for all new parents
Health & wellness stipend
Remote workspace stipend
Flexible work hours and location
21 days of PTO and 80 hours of sick leave
8 to 11 company paid holidays (dependent on your territory of residence)
Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
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.
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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.
