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Engineering Manager, App Primitives

Vanta85 open roles

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$224,000 – $263,000 a year
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Vanta median: 46 days open

The posting

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 App Primitives team owns the shared building blocks that span data structures to UI: comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. We own the general infrastructure; product teams own the logic built on top. Getting this layer right unlocks velocity for every team at Vanta.

As the Engineering Manager, App Primitives at Vanta, you'll lead the team building the shared product primitives that every Vanta product team depends on, owning the infrastructure layer that makes collaboration, communication, and core workflows possible across the entire platform.

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:

- Lead and grow the App Primitives team, owning hiring, team health, delivery, and the development of senior engineers and technical leads

- Own the strategy and roadmap for Vanta's shared product primitives: comments infrastructure, notifications platform, event log, feature flag system (Statsig), and task management

- Define and steward the interface model between App Primitives systems and product teams, ensuring product teams can build on top of shared infrastructure quickly and safely, without owning the underlying systems themselves

- Partner closely with product engineering leaders across Vanta to surface developer needs, identify friction in shared systems, and prioritize investments that unlock velocity at scale

- Set technical direction for a full-stack team working across data models, backend services, and UI primitives, and earn the trust of senior engineers through strong technical judgment

- Manage cross-team dependencies and stakeholder expectations across concurrent workstreams, operating with a high degree of autonomy

How to be successful in this role:

- 3+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineering teams and a track record of developing senior engineers and technical leads

- Experience leading platform, shared services, or product infrastructure teams — where your team's output is what other teams build on

- Technical fluency across the full stack, with enough depth in backend systems, shared data models, and API design to engage substantively with your team's technical decisions

- Strong cross-functional collaborator: able to partner with product, design, and engineering leaders to define clear ownership boundaries and drive alignment across teams

- Track record of hiring senior engineers in a competitive market and building a team culture people want to be part of

- Experience managing multi-team dependencies and delivering across concurrent workstreams with limited oversight

- Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify their skills and strengthen their outcomes, applying it across routine workflows, actively building fluency through experimentation, and exercising sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar.

What you can expect as a Vanta’n:

- 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 paid 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!

- Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

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At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.

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