Engineering Manager, App Primitives - CAN

Vanta; Toronto; Remote; CAD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, vision

Pension contribution

16 weeks parental leave

Wellness stipend

Remote workspace stipend

Flexible hours

Vacation 21 days

11 holidays

Team events

Job summary

Vanta is seeking an Engineering Manager for the App Primitives team in Canada. You will lead and grow a high-impact group responsible for comments infrastructure, notifications, logs, feature flags, and task management, while defining interfaces to product teams.

You will align with product leaders to remove friction and accelerate velocity at scale. You will mentor senior engineers, shape the roadmap, and guide technical decisions across data models, backend services, and UI primitives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience with 2+ years in people management.
• Experience leading platform, shared services, or product infrastructure teams.
• Ability to partner with product, design, and engineering leaders.
• Track record hiring senior engineers in a competitive market.
• Experience leveraging AI to improve engineering outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the App Primitives team, including hiring, health, and delivery.
• Own strategy and roadmap for shared primitives (comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, task management).
• Define interface models between App Primitives and product teams.
• Collaborate with product engineering leaders to surface needs and prioritize investments.
• Set technical direction for a full‑stack team across data, backend, and UI.
• Manage cross‑team dependencies and stakeholder expectations.

Skills

Platform leadership

Full-stack fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Hiring senior engineers

Team mentoring

AI fluency

Job description

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.

Vanta's App Primitives team owns the shared building blocks that span data structures to UI: comments, notifications, event logs, feature flags, and task management. We own the general infrastructure; product teams own the logic built on top. Getting this layer right unlocks velocity for every team at Vanta.

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.

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on!

What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta:

• 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

How To Be Successful In This Role

• 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 — where your team's output is what other teams build on
• Technical fluency across the full stack, with enough depth in backend systems, shared data models, and API design to engage substantively with your team's technical decisions
• Strong cross-functional collaborator: able to partner with product, design, and engineering leaders to define clear ownership boundaries and drive alignment across teams
• Track record of hiring senior engineers in a competitive market and building a team culture people want to be part of
• Experience managing multi-team dependencies and delivering across concurrent workstreams with limited oversight
• Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify their skills and strengthen their outcomes, applying it across routine workflows, actively building fluency through experimentation, and exercising sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar.

What you can expect as a Vanta’n in Canada:

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
• Pension contribution
• 16 weeks fully paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Flexible work hours and location
• 21 days of Vacation Time and 80 hours of Sick Leave
• 11 company-paid holidays
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged.

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.