Engineering Manager, App Primitives
Remote$224k - $263kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Engineering Manager responsible for leading the App Primitives team, owning shared infrastructure and product primitives (comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, task management) and aligning with product teams to enable velocity across the platform.
Responsibilities
- 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
Qualifications
- 5+ years of engineering experience with 2+ years managing engineering teams, including a track record of developing senior engineers and technical leads
- Experience leading platform, shared services, or product infrastructure teams
- Technical fluency across the full stack, with depth in backend systems, shared data models, and API design
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with product, design, and engineering leaders
- Track record of hiring senior engineers in a competitive market and building a desirable team culture
- Experience managing multi-team dependencies and delivering across concurrent workstreams with limited oversight
- Experience using AI to augment day-to-day work and ensure high-quality outcomes
Skills
Required:Engineering leadershipFull-stack technical fluencyCross-functional collaboration
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with employee-only premiums covered for most plans
- 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness stipend
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
- Commuter benefits for SF and NYC offices
- Family planning benefits
- Matching 401(k) with immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO plus 80 hours of Sick Time
- 11 company-paid holidays
- Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Vanta
Automate compliance, manage risk, and accelerate trust with AI
Vanta automates the complex and time-consuming process of SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, and GDPR compliance certification. Automate your security monitoring in weeks instead of months.
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