Vanta
SaaS
EngineeringManager,CorePlatform
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“Engineering Manager, Core Platform at Vanta. Skills: Platform engineering, Infrastructure management, Team leadership. Lead and grow high-performing teams. Set technical direction”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure; Achieve operational excellence; Deliver scalable platform solutions; Enable product teams to ship independently, securely, and efficiently
Industry & Context.
Decision maker who effectively balances ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality; Translate ambiguous infrastructure challenges into clear roadmap priorities
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years managing platform or infrastructure teams, Prior experience managing multiple teams or multiple charters, Track record of maintaining and scaling shared infrastructure, Participated in developing or driving engineering-wide initiatives, Prior experience managing complex, long-term projects
Nice to Have
Open to using AI to amplify their skills
What You'll Do.
Lead and grow high-performing teams
Set technical direction
Drive multi-quarter platform initiatives
Partner closely with product engineering
Design and evolve internal platforms
Guide the evolution of cloud infrastructure
Establish engineering culture
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with product engineering, security, and engineering leadership; Influence cross functional stakeholders and adjacent teams
Communication Scope
Effective communicator; Story-teller; Able to influence cross functional stakeholders
Process & Methodology
Manage complex, long-term projects
Full Job Description
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. 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. Vanta's Core Platform team provides the foundational infrastructure that powers all engineering at Vanta. We're expanding upmarket to support enterprise customers, which requires strategic investment in platform systems that ensure security, reliability, and developer productivity at scale. As we expand upmarket to support enterprise and regulated customers, we’re investing heavily in platform capabilities that scale securely while reducing cognitive load for product teams. As the Engineering Manager, Core Platform at Vanta, you'll own the foundational infrastructure that every engineer builds on, ensuring it scales with company growth while remaining fast, simple, and reliable. This team’s ownership spans shared services infrastructure, observability and monitoring, datastore management, and async work systems. Our Engineering Managers develop and grow high-performing teams that deliver significant value to our customers and enable our business to scale. This role sits at the intersection of technical architecture and team development, with real authority to set direction and grow a world-class platform team. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog https://www.vanta.com/all-categories/engineering to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta
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