Engineering Manager, Evaluation Platform

Vanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. The Engineering Manager for the Evaluation Platform will lead a team responsible for developing critical features that enhance customer compliance visibility and drive impactful results through engineering excellence and strategic direction.

Responsibilities:

• Drive significant impact for our customers and business by leading your team to deliver results consistently and sustainably
• Build a best-in-class engineering team by coaching, mentoring, and creating an environment where your team can do their best work
• Set direction and guide technical strategy, ensuring that your team is delivering long-term value aligned with Vanta's business priorities
• Work closely with product, design, and customer-facing teams to build and ship high-value features that solve real customer problems
• Champion engineering excellence, including quality, scalability, and operational rigor, as the team grows its platform capabilities and explores AI-driven innovations

Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional experience in a full-time engineering leadership role managing teams of 6-8+ engineers
• Strong decision maker who effectively balances ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality
• Experience managing and upleveling senior individual contributors
• Proven track record of guiding product and long-term technical strategy
• Experience leading or working on backend systems that coordinate complex workflows or decision logic at scale, with a strong emphasis on performance and quality
• Previous experience working on product features in a SaaS environment, with an understanding of fullstack engineering and customer-facing development
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate closely with cross-functional partners including product, design, and other engineering teams
• Strong technical foundation with the ability to participate in architecture decisions and guide technical direction
• 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