# Staff Engineer, Product Engineering

**Company:** [Vanta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vanta)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $238k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** System Design, Product Engineering, Technical Leadership, Architecture, AI Tools, Roadmap Planning, Stakeholder Management, Mentoring, Execution Coordination, Code Quality
**Posted:** 2025-12-16

> Leads large-scale multi-team initiatives in Trust product engineering, owning technical roadmaps, architecture, and execution while mentoring engineers and influencing strategy. Requires decade+ cross-org leadership and system design expertise.

## Job Description

## About the Role

As a Staff Engineer, lead large-scale, multi-team initiatives from end to end. Define technical direction and architecture, collaborate with leadership across Engineering, Product, and Design, and mobilize multiple pods of 6–7+ engineers to deliver complex features. Lead with influence, mentor engineers, unblock others, and ship features.

**What you’ll do:**
- Own the technical roadmap for major product domains within the Trust org.
- Work across teams to turn ambiguous goals into aligned, well-architected execution plans.
- Lead execution by scoping, assigning, and coordinating work across multiple pods of engineers.
- Personally build the foundational pieces and unblock high-complexity work.
- Influence product strategy, grow technical talent, and define patterns and best practices org-wide.

**How to be successful:**
- Extensive knowledge of Product delivery and system design; typically a decade or more of cross-org leadership experience.
- Strong ability to navigate ambiguity, manage stakeholder alignment, and synthesize technical direction.
- Lead complex project portfolios across teams with full accountability for architecture and outcomes.
- Directly responsible for execution coordination and high-quality personal contribution.
- Mentor engineers across the org; actively develop technical leadership in others.
- Recognized as a force for scale, clarity, and system-level thinking.
- Open to using AI to amplify skills responsibly.

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