Staff Software Engineer, Program Structure & Trust

Responsibilities

• Own the design and multi-quarter delivery of Vanta's enterprise org model, including 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 the core abstractions that let the platform absorb structurally diverse, often conflicting enterprise requirements — solving for the general case rather than one-off customer accommodations
• Retrofit a live production system toward a multi-tenant org structure: design safe migration paths, sequence delivery incrementally, and preserve continuity for existing customers as the architecture evolves
• Carve out and ship meaningful customer value each quarter while progressing toward the full solution — this requires product judgment, direct engagement with enterprise customers, and the discipline to draw clean increment lines through a complex problem space
• Drive execution across squads outside your direct area, building alignment through technical clarity and credibility rather than authority
• Partner with Engineering leadership, Product, and
• Design to translate the long-term vision for enterprise structure into phased, deliverable work
• Set the technical standard for the group — define patterns others build to, shape architecture across teams, and model the engineering excellence the Program Structure and Trust charter is organized around
• How to be successful in this role
• 10+ years of deep backend engineering experience with a track record of leading complex, multi-quarter technical initiatives in fast-paced, product-focused environments

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