Engineering Manager, Evaluation Platform

About Vanta

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.

The Evaluation Platform team owns one of the most critical and widely-used features on the Vanta platform—Tests. Vanta Tests give customers visibility into their compliance posture, automatically collect audit evidence, and provide clear remediation guidance. Our team is responsible for the complete lifecycle of Tests, from configuration and execution to managing test outcomes and driving customer action.

We're scaling our execution infrastructure and building the next generation of test personalization while exploring AI-powered solutions for test creation and intelligent remediation workflows. This is a high-visibility role where you'll lead a team building platform features that directly impact both our internal engineering teams and our customers' daily experience with Vanta.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll be responsible for setting strategy, leading your team to deliver results consistently and sustainably, growing and developing talented engineers, and cultivating a healthy, results-driven culture on your team.

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on!

What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager, Evaluation Platform at Vanta:

• 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

How to be successful in this role:

• 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

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 fully-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!

Key skills/competency

• Engineering Leadership
• Technical Strategy
• SaaS Development
• Backend Systems
• AI-Powered Solutions
• Team Management
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Scalability
• Product Feature Development
• System Architecture