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Lead Security Architect in Canada

426 active opportunities · Updated October 2026

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! The Opportunity Cohere seeks a Chief Information Security Officer who can help shape Cohere’s security strategy & the broader conversation around securing AI at scale. You know how to build trust across organizations and communicate trade-offs clearly in environments where speed, innovation, and security must coexist. You will build the playbook and lead the evolution of Cohere’s global security program across corporate systems, cloud infrastructure, AI development, and enterprise operations. As a visible leader for Cohere’s security vision internally and externally you will navigate risk, represent Cohere in industry discussions, and reinforcing our commitment to building AI responsibly. In this role you will: Define and Scale Cohere’s Security Strategy: Define and execute Cohere’s overarching information security strategy in alignment with business priorities and long-term company growth. Build a Modern Risk, Governance & Compliance Program: Lead Cohere in identifying, assessing, and mitigating security risk across all business functions. Secure AI Systems and Technical Infrastructure: Lead the security architecture st

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📍 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada· Full-time
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Most security assurance work is reactive: a customer asks, a team scrambles, an answer goes out. This role exists to end that cycle. As a Senior Staff Analyst, you’ll own a named portfolio of our most significant customers from a security perspective, and get ahead of what they need — their regulatory environment, their audit calendar, their risk appetite, their control expectations — well enough to have the evidence ready before the request arrives. You’ll lead customer security audits hands-on, sit across from customer security teams as a peer rather than a form-filler, and build account security plans that make the next assessment predictable instead of painful. This is deliberately a hands-on senior individual contributor role. You’ll spend your time in audits, in customer conversations, and in the detail of controls and evidence — not in a management chain. If you’ve got deep SOC 2 and ISO 27001 knowledge, real technical range across cloud architecture, identity and vulnerability management, and the presence to hold a room with a sceptical CISO, this is a portfolio you can genuinely own. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff): Own a portfolio of strategic accounts as their dedicated security point of contact, building durable relationships with their security, risk, compliance and procurement teams. Lead customer security audits and assessments hands-on — scoping, preparing evidence, running the sessions, defending control design and driving findings to closure with internal owners. Build and maintain an account security plan for each account: their frameworks and regulators, audit and reassessment cycles, known concerns, open items and the roadmap commitments they care about. Anticipate requirements before they’re raised, tracking regulatory change, industry expectations and each account’s compliance calendar so documentation and evidence are staged in advance. Act

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📍 Seal Beach, Canada
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Lead Systems Engineer Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense, Space & Security’s Experimental Systems Group (ESG) is hiring Lead Systems Engineer to join our team at Seal Beach or El Segundo, CA. We are seeking a Lead Systems Engineer with proven expertise in requirements development and management, verification and validation (V&V), system architecture, specifications, and Interface Control Documents (ICDs). The ideal candidate will excel at translating stakeholder needs into clear, well-formed requirements, developing and maintaining comprehensive system-level architectures, authoring and managing technical specifications and ICDs, and planning and executing verification activities across all system elements to ensure successful project outcomes. Position Responsibilities: Elicit, analyze, decompose, and allocate system and subsystem requirements from stakeholder needs and higher-level system specifications Create, edit, and maintain well-structured, testable requirements using a requirements management tool Develop and maintain system architecture descriptions (functional, logical, physical) and traceability from requirements to architecture and verification Author and maintain specifications and Interface Control Documents (ICDs) that define interfaces between systems and subsystems; manage ICD baselines and change control Develop verification plans, procedures, and test cases aligned to requirements; coordinate and perform verification activities (analysis, inspection, demonstration, test) and document results Support integration activities and resolve interface mismatches and discrepancies between subsystems through engineering change proposals or interface updates Maintain

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📍 Huntington Beach, Canada
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Lead Electrophysics Engineer Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense Space & Security (BDS) is seeking highly motivated Lead Electrophysics Engineer (Level 5) to support various programs located in Huntington Beach, CA, Seal Beach, CA , or El Segundo, CA . As a part of one or more Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) teams, you will provide technical engineering and program support, while serving as the core point of contact between your payload products and the broader system team. In this role you will serve as the technical owner for a range of RF related payload products, with an emphasis on system performance, integration, supplier technical management, and cross-organizational interface management. Your products will include both experimental and operational systems, extending through all lifecycle phases (early feasibility studies through operation and disposal). An ideal candidate will be highly motivated, with a strong technical background in RF and Radar systems, space environments, and RF payload integration onto air or space platforms. Position Responsibilities: Provide expertise over a broad range of radar related activities, including performance and trade studies of radar systems and architectures Oversee development and implementation of radar signal image processing techniques Perform system engineering and integration of Radar Warning Receivers (RWR) into various systems Developing Concept of Operations for the design and utilization of RF products Perform Mission Design and payload effectiveness analysis Lead technical teams, including subcontractors, to oversee hardware and processing

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📍 Palo Alto, CA· Full-time· Hybrid
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A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role As a Senior Identity Security Engineer on Palantir's Identity Security team, you will own the security posture of the identity infrastructure that Palantirians, customers, and services rely on every day. The Identity Security team is responsible for all identity types at Palantir - workforce, customer, workload, and agentic - giving you the rare ability to architect, threat model, and drive security outcomes across the full identity surface. You will help shape the technical direction for identity security at Palantir, reduce standing access, lead identity threat modeling, and contribute to the next generation of identity primitives including agent identity, JIT-native governance, and unified policy enforcement across workforce and customer IAM. As part of Palantir's best-in-class Information Security organization, you will research, architect, and scale solutions that help Palantir stay ahead of a dynamic identity threat landscape.

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$216K – $288K/yr

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Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Device Security, you will play a key role in helping HP IQ lead the industry in advancing the security of AI devices, and empowering business and users with control of their privacy and personal data in the quickly evolving AI-driven world. Privacy and security are table stakes at HP IQ, and absolutely integral to our success as a dynamic company with a deep commitment to product. You will own projects through their entire life cycle, building secure systems for our innovative devices by threat modeling, designing secure architectures, and implementing them. This role focuses on designing and implementing solutions across the entire software stack of embedded systems, PCs, and server class workstations. This includes the way they interface with the outside world, in a way that provides joyful user experiences without compromising privacy & security. The technology that you will create will maintain and strengthen the trust that HP IQ promises to our customers. What You Might Do Lead the design and implementation of embedded device secu

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -72.4%

From C$129K/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. We are hiring a Business Systems Lead to own the sales technology behind Lyft Ads. As the senior technical owner of the Lyft Ads CRM and commercial systems, you will lead solution design across Salesforce and the connected ad-sales stack and own the architecture for how ad deals move from opportunity through order management and billing. You will work alongside a team of Salesforce engineers and partner closely with Ads Sales, Sales Operations, Ad Operations, Finance, Legal, and the Media engineering teams. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who knows ad-sales operations and can build the systems that run them. Responsibilities: Own the Salesforce architecture for the ad-sales lifecycle, from lead sourcing and opportunity creation through Order Management System (OMS) integration, contract execution, delivery reconciliation, and billing. Identify problems and opportunities across the Ads sales technology stack and shape them into scoped, funded initiatives. Lead requirements with Ads Sales, Sales Operations, Ad Operations, Finance, and Legal partners, and translate them into functional and technical designs. Own the integrations that connect Salesforce to the ad-sales ecosystem, including order management and contract systems, the ad server, and billing, through middleware such as Workato or Boomi. Drive AI best practices across the Sales Technology team, modeling effective usage and ensuring all AI-generated output meets Lyft's standards for quality, security, and performance. Guide the evolution of the Ads CRM platform, including the media-specific data model (agency, advertiser, and brand hierarchies, insertion orders, and flights) and own the Ad Sales Technology roadmap . Lead contract lifecycle management for Ads, including intake automation and Salesforce integration. Remain h

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Opportunity: Okta Access Gateway (OAG) Enterprises run on a mix of modern cloud services and mission-critical on-premises systems (such as Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP, PeopleSoft, and custom legacy web apps). Okta Access Gateway (OAG) solves the enterprise hybrid cloud challenge by extending Okta’s cloud identity, Adaptive MFA, and Zero Trust security policies to on-premises and legacy applications without requiring custom code changes or traditional VPNs. As the Engineering Manager for Okta Access Gateway in Toronto, you will lead and grow a team of software engineers building the next generation of our hybrid access and gateway infrastructure. You will partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, Security, and Quality teams to deliver high-throughput, mission-critical security software deployed across multi-cloud and enterprise datacenters globally. What You’ll Do People Leadership & Team Growth Lead, mentor, and empower an engineering team, fostering an inclusive, high-performance, and psychologically safe engineering culture. Drive career progression, goal setting, regular 1:1s, and continuous feedback to help engineers grow their technical and leadership skills. Attract, interview, and hire diverse engineering talent to scale Okta’s engineering presence in Toronto. Delivery & Operational Excellence Own the end-to-end execution and delivery of key product roadmap initiatives, balancing feature velocity, technical debt, and softwar

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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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. As the Engineering Manager, App Primitives at Vanta, you'll lead the team building the shared product primitives that every Vanta product team depends on, owning the infrastructure layer that makes collaboration, communication, and core workflows possible across the entire platform. 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 ne

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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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 Staff Software Engineer on the Automation - Foundations team, you will lead the re-platforming of the data layer underneath Vanta’s entire compliance product. This is a migration that spans multiple teams, has to preserve every public API contract along the way, and cannot lose a single customer’s evidence while it happens. Foundations is Vanta’s data platform team. We ingest security and compliance data from across our customer’s environments, currently tens of thousands of resources per second, with single-customer bursts running into the millions. We store the data, catalog it, make it queryable, and turn it into evidence that has to survive a real SOC 2 or FedRAMP audit. We are in the middle of moving our platform from a Mongo-centric architecture to a schema-aware, Postgres-backed architecture, on a Kafka and S3 pipeline that decouples data fetching from processing. Both pipelines run in parallel today, the hard problems here are correctness under migration, eventual consistency, and multi-tenancy, in a domain where “mostly right” is not an acceptable failure mode. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on. What you'll do as a Staff Software Engineer at Vanta: Lead the migration of Vanta’s resource data model from a Mongo-centric solution to a schema-aware Postgres-backed solution and running both generations in parallel without breaking a customer integration. Drive solutions across teams that you do not own but are dependent on the platform built by your team. Design for correctness under eventual consistency with idempotent session handling, conditional writes that survive out

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -72.4%

From C$122K/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft is looking for an IT Systems Engineer to lead the technical side of integrating newly acquired companies into Lyft's IT environment. You'll be responsible for migrating collaboration tools, SaaS platforms, and identity systems from acquired teams into Lyft's stack, with minimal disruption to either side. We're looking for a self-starter who's equally comfortable driving projects independently and partnering with others to get things done. The ideal candidate brings strong attention to detail, creative problem-solving, and a genuine drive to automate processes and improve efficiency across the IT organization. Responsibilities: Manage SaaS integration and consolidation during merger and acquisition activity, ensuring smooth platform migrations, data integrity, and minimal disruption across merged organizations Provide architectural, engineering, and operational support for corporate IT systems at Lyft Support single sign on integrations with Lyft’s primary identity provider, Okta. Leverage various APIs to write scripts and applications to automate IT Operations Support and work with IT, Security and other internal departments by building automation for repetitive tasks Write detailed and concise documentation and runbooks Engage with vendors to implement and improve services to best support Lyft’s needs Be a mentor to others in IT and act as a source for others Experience & Skills: 5+ years of experience managing corporate IT Systems Proven experience supporting IT integration during mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures, including SaaS platform consolidation and system migrations SaaS system application management including but not limited to: Gsuite, Okta, Atlassian, Slack Scripting experience leveraging GAM, Python, Bash, and/or equivalent tools Comfortable consuming RES

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📍 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada· Full-time
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From C$250K/yr

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Overview We are seeking a hands-on Director of AI Software Engineering to lead and scale AI engineering efforts supporting multiple business units across Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). This role sits at the intersection of product delivery, platform evolution, and applied AI—driving real-world impact across core workflows. This is not a pure management role. We are looking for a builder who leads from the front, someone who has recently written production code, shipped systems end-to-end, and can operate comfortably in ambiguity while aligning teams and stakeholders. What You’ll Do Lead AI Engineering Across GRC Own delivery of AI-powered capabilities embedded directly into business unit workflows (e.g., risk analysis, compliance automation, reporting, due diligence) Partner with product, data, and platform teams to translate business problems into scalable AI systems Stay Hands-On Contribute to architecture, code reviews, and critical path implementation Prototype and validate new approaches (LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, classification pipelines, etc.) Set engineering standards for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency Build and Scale Teams Lead and mentor a high-performing team of AI/ML and software engineers Drive hiring, coaching, and career development Establish a culture of ownership, speed, and technical excellence Drive Execution Deliver production-grade systems—not experiments Balance speed with rigor (security, privacy, compliance) Operate across multiple concurrent initiatives with clear prioritization Communicate and Influence Act as a bridge between engineering and business stakeholders Clearly articulate trade-offs, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership Align cross-functional teams around shared goals and timelines What We’re Looking For Proven Builder 10+ years in software engineering, with recent hands-on coding experience Demonstrated track record of shipping production systems at scale Experience with modern

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $252K/yr

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About Scale AI Scale AI is the data foundation for AI, helping organizations build and deploy reliable production AI applications. We partner with leading enterprises and government organizations to accelerate their AI initiatives through our data annotation platform, generative AI solutions, and enterprise AI capabilities. Role Overview As a Forward Deployed AI Engineering Manager on our Enterprise team, you'll be the technical bridge between Scale AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities and our most strategic customers. You'll work with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges, lead a team that architects specific AI solutions, and ensure successful deployment and adoption of AI systems in production environments. This is a Management role that combines deep engineering and AI expertise, leading a team, and working on customer-facing problems. You'll work directly with customer engineering teams to integrate AI into their critical workflows. Key Responsibilities Customer Integration & Deployment Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand their technical infrastructure, data pipelines, and business requirements Design and implement custom integrations between Scale AI's platform and customer data environments (cloud platforms, data warehouses, internal APIs) Build robust data connectors and ETL pipelines to ingest, process, and prepare customer data for AI workflows Deploy and configure AI models and agents within customer security and compliance boundaries AI Agent Development Develop production-grade AI agents tailored to customer use cases across domains like customer support, data analysis, content generation, and workflow automation Architect multi-agent systems that orchestrate between different models, tools, and data sources Implement evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance and iterate toward business objectives Design human-in-the-loop workflows and feedback mechanisms for continuous agent improvement Prompt Engineeri

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $184K/yr

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Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer, Frontier AI Infrastructure to join our dynamic Public Sector Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will own the model inference layer - enabling state of the art models, debugging the latest AI tools, managing networking, debugging latency, and tracking pricing/usage metrics for AI models. You will lead technical discussions on the frontlines with cloud vendors and customers to deliver on critical contracts and to debug platform issues. You will also work upstream with Product to understand features before they break, moving us from "infra-only debugging" to proactive integration testing. You will: Design and implement secure scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure. Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components Re-architect the stack to run in compliant or restrictive environments. This requires designing swappable components (auth, storage, logging) to meet government/security mandates without breaking the product. You will work with Product to build integration tests that catch issues early, shifting the focus from "infra-only debugging" to preventing failures upstream. Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions. Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings. Must have: At least an active secret clearance and the ability & willingness to up level to TS/SCI with CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a secret clearance Ideally you'd have: Full Stack Development: Proficiency in both front-end and back-end development, including experience with modern web develo

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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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 Core Platform team provides the foundational infrastructure that powers all engineering at Vanta. We're expanding upmarket to support enterprise customers, which requires strategic investment in platform systems that ensure security, reliability, and developer productivity at scale. As we expand upmarket to support enterprise and regulated customers, we’re investing heavily in platform capabilities that scale securely while reducing cognitive load for product teams. As the Engineering Manager, Core Platform at Vanta, you'll own the foundational infrastructure that every engineer builds on, ensuring it scales with company growth while remaining fast, simple, and reliable. This team’s ownership spans shared services infrastructure, observability and monitoring, datastore management, and async work systems. 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 high-performing platform engineering teams that deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure and operational excellence for Vanta’s products and customers Set technical direction and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives spanning infrastructure reliability, security, scalability, and developer experience across shared systems and services Partner closely with product engineerin

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