[Remote] Senior Security Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will own impactful projects, ensuring the effectiveness of the security team and contributing expertise across various functions within the company.

Responsibilities

• Participate in team exercises to identify potential security risks, including threat modeling and tabletop scenarios
• Contribute to complex prioritization discussions around which risks are the most important to solve next
• Plan projects to address the risks we prioritize, and coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders across the company to execute those projects
• Build maintainable programs to implement operational excellence where ongoing work is needed to achieve our goals (e.g. vulnerability management)
• Partner with engineering teams to architect secure software, address security concerns, and build a strong security culture
• Build, customize, and run tools to increase the maturity of our security program without adding undue friction to the company’s operations
• Support ongoing bug bounty and penetration testing programs
• Establish and maintain a network of security champions
• Understand security knowledge gaps of the development organization and help to deliver training to address gaps
• Provide input into architectural discussions to enable teams to innovate in a secure and repeatable manner

Skills

• A track record of independent ownership of areas of responsibility
• Experience with threat modeling, red teaming, penetration testing, or other means of identifying security issues
• Experience with software development and the ability to read code to identify security issues
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with deep developer empathy
• Highly organized project management skills
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

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