Vanta
Engineering Manager, App Primitives
$224K–$263K
Remote U.S. · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineering teams.
About the job
Lead the App Primitives team and set the strategy and technical direction for shared infrastructure used by Vanta’s product teams.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow the team, including hiring, team health, delivery, and developing senior engineers and technical leads.
- Own the strategy and roadmap for shared primitives, including comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management.
- Set technical direction and coordinate with product teams to define interfaces, prioritize shared-system investments, and manage cross-team dependencies.
What they ask for
- At least 3 years of engineering experience, including at least 2 years managing engineering teams.
- Experience leading platform, shared services, or product infrastructure teams.
- Full-stack technical fluency, with depth in backend systems, shared data models, and API design.
- Experience hiring senior engineers, managing multi-team dependencies, and delivering across concurrent workstreams with limited oversight.
Pay
$224K – $263K USD base salary
Tools
Statsig
AI focus
Use AI in day-to-day work to amplify skills and improve outcomes, build fluency through experimentation, and apply sound judgment to maintain quality.
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