Engineering Manager, Vanta
Core Platform
Plus equity
AI trust management platform
Open for applications
AI trust management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Plus equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses earn and prove trust.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years managing platform or infrastructure teams at high-growth tech companies
- Prior experience managing multiple teams or multiple charters
- Strong decision maker who effectively balances ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality
- Track record of maintaining and scaling shared infrastructure in measurable, concrete ways
- Have participated in developing or driving engineering-wide initiatives (recruiting processes, career frameworks, etc) in a prior role
- Have prior experience managing complex, long-term projects that touch multiple teams and cross-functional stakeholders
- Effective communicator and story-teller. Able to influence cross functional stakeholders and adjacent teams, and comfortable driving technical direction across teams without relying on direct authority
- 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 the job involves
- 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
- 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 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
Our take
The security auditing process is usually very time-consuming, taking hours to complete, and it is often difficult for startups to invest time into such a process. Yet, the benefits of security accreditation are enormous, mainly as many such businesses are working globally and need ways to demonstrate security compliance to one another. Vanta works specifically with startups to help them complete and pass security audits such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
The company is a compliance portal and security monitoring platform that businesses use to assess their risk levels. Vanta carries out a pre-audit of a company's digital security and highlights areas that need to be worked on before a full analysis of all threats is carried out. Other businesses such as Datadog or PagerDuty offer similar security monitoring services, but Vanta monitors its customers throughout the year, allowing any issues to be identified and addressed early on.
Vanta's latest $150M raise, boosting its valuation to $4.15B, highlights the company's rapid growth and strong market position. With AI-driven automation, expanding government partnerships, and strategic acquisitions on the horizon, Vanta is scaling quickly while solving real customer problems. Backed by a talented leadership team and a growing customer base, the company looks set to continue its upward trajectory and build a lasting, sustainable business.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2025
$150m
SERIES D
Jul 2024
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $500.2m
Company benefits
- Health & Wellness: Vanta values the health and well-being of our teammates and offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for teammates and dependents. Vanta is excited to provide an additional range of benefits that holistically support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Work Your Way: Enjoy a remote-first setup if you're in the US, or go hybrid at our international offices
- Paid Parental Leave: Industry competitive paid parental leave for all parents
- Time Away: Industry competitive and generous PTO policy
- 401K Plan: 401k matching contribution plan
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Christina Cacioppo
(Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Vanta in 2017, Christina worked in Product Management for Dropbox. She was also a Professor at the School of Visual Arts and worked on the Investment Team at Union Square Ventures.
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