Lead platform infrastructure at Vanta by guiding App Primitives and applying full-stack technical judgment to shared product systems. This role is based in Canada.

As Engineering Manager, App Primitives, you will grow a team responsible for infrastructure used across Vanta. You will shape strategy, develop senior engineers, and guide systems spanning backend services, data models, APIs, and UI. Your work enables product teams to build quickly and safely on shared foundations.

Key Responsibilities

Lead hiring, team health, delivery, and engineer development

Own roadmaps for comments, notifications, event logs, flags, and tasks

Define interfaces between shared systems and product teams

Partner with engineering leaders to prioritize platform investments

Set technical direction across backend, data, and UI primitives

Requirements

Five-plus years of engineering experience

Two-plus years managing engineering teams

Experience leading platform or shared services teams

Full-stack fluency with backend systems and API design

Experience hiring senior engineers and managing dependencies

Build Vanta’s shared product foundation through platform strategy, team development, and solid full-stack engineering leadership.

📌 Engineering Manager Platform Infrastructure (Winnipeg)
🏢 Vanta
📍 Winnipeg