Staff Software Engineer, Growth (Self Serve)

The role

You will design and build customer-facing software and shared platform capabilities using TypeScript, React, and Node.js. You will lead multi-quarter initiatives, own technical direction for Growth domains, and coach other engineers.

What you will do

• Design, build, and evolve reliable customer-facing software and shared platform capabilities.
• Understand customer research and product analytics to find and prioritize friction points.
• Lead complex, multi-quarter initiatives from technical roadmap through delivery and adoption.
• Give engineers ownership of important work and coach them through technical choices.
• Own technical direction for major Growth product and platform domains.
• Partner with Product, Design, Customer Success, Sales, and other engineering teams.
• Clarify decisions and dependencies across teams and communicate technical approaches.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership by turning ambiguous goals into shipped results across multiple teams.
• Strong product judgment and experience building customer-facing SaaS products.
• Use customer insight and quantitative signals to assess product outcomes and guide iteration.
• Develop other engineers through ownership, coaching, and feedback.
• Comfort working through ambiguity, learning unfamiliar domains, and making progress with a bias toward action.
• Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify skills and strengthen outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience building across growth, onboarding, activation, or self-service journeys.
• Interest in learning about security and compliance.

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 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
• 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays

About the company

Vanta helps businesses earn and prove trust by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. The company provides a Trust Management Platform to automate security monitoring for compliance standards.