Director of Engineering
Vanta
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Lead multiple teams to deliver results consistently and sustainably while holding a high bar for execution and quality
- Independently identify and realize strategies that deliver significant value to our customers and business, with a focus on enterprise platform capabilities
- Set and deliver technical strategy such as evolving the legacy codebase and building foundational primitives to support the long-term product vision
- Build a best-in-class engineering team through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and creating an environment where teams and managers can do their best work
- Actively shape the organization to deliver for the business, including talent development, growing leaders, and performance management
- Partner closely with Design, Product, and GTM counterparts to build best-in-class platform capabilities and bring them to market
- Drive key architectural initiatives to support Vanta's upmarket growth
- Play an integral role in influencing and shaping Vanta's engineering culture and strategy
- Enable teams to ship iteratively with speed and quality while effectively balancing ambiguity, available data, and customer needs
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering leadership experience, with deep experience building enterprise SaaS products and platforms in a high-growth environment
- Experience leading and scaling engineering organizations of 30+ with multiple teams, and a proven track record of growing line managers
- Passion for leading, coaching, and building an inspired team through setting vision, unlocking potential, and driving compassionate accountability
- Strong technical craft with the ability to set and deliver technical strategy, including experience with architectural evolution at scale (e.g., monolith to microservices, event-driven architecture, multi-tenant systems)
- Business acumen paired with strong product sense—understanding how platform capabilities enable customer value and business outcomes
- Experience shipping products at scale with evidence of understanding how work fits into product requirements
- Strong decision maker who effectively balances ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality
- Effective communicator and story-teller, able to influence cross-functional stakeholders and engineering partners at all levels
- Operates at multiple altitudes, from developing vision and strategy to driving execution
- 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.
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
- 16 weeks fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents
- Health & wellness stipend
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
- Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
- Family planning benefits
- Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
- 11 company-paid holidays
- Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise SaaSarchitectural evolutionmonolith to microservicesevent-driven architecturemulti-tenant systemstechnical strategyproduct requirementsengineering leadershipplatform capabilitiesscaling engineering organizations
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingmentoringcommunicationdecision makinginfluencingvision settingcompassionate accountabilitytalent developmentperformance management