Engineering Manager, Core Platform

Location Remote U.S. Employment Type Full time Location Type Remote Department Software Engineering Compensation Cash Range $224K – $263K • Offers Equity • This role is also eligible for medical benefits, 401(k) plan, and other company perk programs. 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. 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 Core Platform team provides the foundational infrastructure that powers all engineering at Vanta. We're expanding upmarket to support enterprise customers, which requires strategic investment in platform systems that ensure security, reliability, and developer productivity at scale. As we expand upmarket to support enterprise and regulated customers, we’re investing heavily in platform capabilities that scale securely while reducing cognitive load for product teams. As the Engineering Manager, Core Platform at Vanta, you'll own the foundational infrastructure that every engineer builds on, ensuring it scales with company growth while remaining fast, simple, and reliable. This 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 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 infrastru