Director of Engineering

Director of Engineering 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. As a Director of Engineering at Vanta, you will lead and grow a dynamic engineering organization focused on enabling large, complex enterprises to scale their GRC programs. Your teams will build the platform capabilities that power multi-tenant management, program segmentation, enterprise reporting, and the sophisticated tooling that upmarket customers depend on to manage their compliance and security operations at scale. You will lead multiple engineering teams focused on building the foundational capabilities that allow holding companies, MSPs, and large enterprises to effectively scope, segment, and manage their GRC programs—playing a pivotal role in driving Vanta's upmarket expansion strategy. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog https://www.vanta.com/all-categories/engineering to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as a Director of Engineering at Vanta: - 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 How to be successful in this role: - 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 - Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness t ... (truncated, view full listing at source)