Engineering Manager - Platform Manager

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. Vanta’s Core Platform team provides the foundational infrastructure that powers all engineering at Vanta. We’re expanding upmarket to support enterprise and regulated customers, investing heavily in platform capabilities that scale securely while reducing cognitive load for product teams.

As the Engineering Manager, Core Platform, you will own the foundational infrastructure that every engineer builds on, ensuring it scales with company growth while remaining fast, simple, and reliable. The 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 to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta Lead and grow high-performing platform engineering teams that deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure and operational excellence.

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 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. Qualifications 5+ years managing platform or infrastructure teams at high‑growth tech companies.

Strong decision maker who effectively balances ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality. Track record of maintaining and scaling shared infrastructure in measurable, concrete ways. Experience developing or driving engineering‑wide initiatives (e.g., recruiting processes, career frameworks).

Experience managing complex, long‑term projects that touch multiple teams and cross‑functional stakeholders. Open to using AI to amplify skills, demonstrating curiosity, willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly. Benefits and Compensation Industry‑competitive salary and equity.

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee‑only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans. Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend. Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office.

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.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials. #LI-remote We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. #J-18808-Ljbffr