[Remote] Engineering Manager, Core Platform
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. The Engineering Manager, Core Platform will lead high-performing platform engineering teams, ensuring the foundational infrastructure scales with company growth while delivering reliable and efficient solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow high-performing platform engineering teams that deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure and operational excellence for Vanta’s products and customers
- Set technical direction and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives spanning infrastructure reliability, security, scalability, and developer experience across shared systems and services
- Partner closely with product engineering, security, and engineering leadership to identify organizational needs. Translate ambiguous infrastructure challenges into clear roadmap priorities, and deliver scalable platform solutions
- Design and evolve internal platforms, paved roads, and abstractions that enable product teams to ship independently, securely, and efficiently without deep infrastructure expertise
- Guide the evolution of Vanta’s cloud and data infrastructure, including AWS services (ECS, Fargate), MongoDB performance and optimization, and event-driven architecture
- Establish strong engineering culture, operational standards, and ownership practices that empower teams across Vanta to build and operate healthy systems responsibly
Skills
- 5+ years managing platform or infrastructure teams at high-growth tech companies
- Prior experience managing multiple teams or multiple charters
- Strong decision maker who effectively balances ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality
- Track record of maintaining and scaling shared infrastructure in measurable, concrete ways
- Have participated in developing or driving engineering-wide initiatives (recruiting processes, career frameworks, etc) in a prior role
- Have prior experience managing complex, long-term projects that touch multiple teams and cross-functional stakeholders
- Effective communicator and story-teller. Able to influence cross functional stakeholders and adjacent teams, and comfortable driving technical direction across teams without relying on direct authority
- 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
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
- 16 weeks 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, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
- 11 company-paid holidays
- Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
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