Engineering Manager, App Primitives - CAN

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 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: