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