Experience: 3+ years
What you'll do as a Senior Manager, Systems Engineering at Vanta:
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of systems engineers and a tech lead. Set clear expectations, hold a high bar, and develop the people who build Vanta's most critical internal systems.
- Own joiner, mover, and leaver automation end to end in Okta Workflows, so access is correct on day one, follows people through role changes, and closes completely on departure, including API keys and service credentials.
- Build and own device assurance across macOS and Windows, defining OS, browser, and device-state policy ahead of enforcement rather than in response to it.
- Rationalize the ITSM estate so self-service works, engineers spend their time on platform work instead of tool administration, and partner teams have a system they trust.
- Make Corporate Engineering a governed step in SaaS procurement, with SSO enforced, access reviewed, and no tools discovered months after they went live.
- Own the identity, access, and connector infrastructure behind Vanta's company-wide AI stack, including MCP servers and the Vercel platform, in close partnership with our AI and Data teams.
- Build the visibility layer that shows how work enters the team and where capacity goes, so priorities are set with data and tradeoffs are legible to partners.
- Partner with Security, GRC, Finance, and Engineering to enable rather than gate, building guardrails that make self-service safe instead of controls that slow the company down.
- A track record of raising the bar on an inherited team, holding it through sustained one-on-one coaching, and staying steady when the results take more than a quarter to show.
- Real appetite for inherited complexity, whether that is an orphaned endpoint program, an unfinished migration, or an over-engineered workflow. Interest in untangling it, not just tolerance for it.
- An enablement-first instinct. Your default question is how to make something safe to self-serve, not how to control it.
- Enough technical depth to evaluate estimates honestly and tell the difference between genuine risk and reported progress.
- Hands-on fluency with AI in enterprise tooling, including deploying or governing AI-assisted automation in platforms such as Okta, Intune, Jamf, Atlassian, or GitHub.
- Experience spanning identity, endpoint, ITSM, and procurement, or deep expertise in most of them with a track record of expanding scope.
- Comfort operating through influence. Several levers this role depends on, including security policy, procurement, and AI strategy, sit in partner organizations.
- 8+ years in IT or systems engineering, including 3+ years managing and developing engineers, ideally at a company that scaled through a significant headcount inflection.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.
- 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.
- 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 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!
- Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney
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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.
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.
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