Engineering Manager

Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. The platform offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, trusted by over 7 million developers. In February 2026, Render raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing total funding to $260M.

As Engineering Manager for the newly formed Platform team, you will lead a growing group of engineers to modernize Render's internal developer platform and shared production infrastructure (observability, CI/CD, developer environments, storage, and more). This role blends strong technical leadership with product thinking, partnering with other engineering teams and product managers to translate user needs into high-quality, scalable systems.

• Lead and grow a team of platform engineers, supporting their development through mentorship, feedback, and clear technical guidance.
• Drive execution on key product initiatives from ideation through launch, balancing speed with high standards of reliability and quality.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Engage deeply in technical discussions, guiding system design decisions and architectural tradeoffs.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging tools.
• Help the team break down complex problems into incremental milestones.
• Ensure teams maintain a strong understanding of developer experience, reliability, security, and velocity impact.
• Partner closely with teams like Runtime, Security, and Product to align priorities and deliver impactful features.

• 8+ years as an Engineer on an Infrastructure or similarly shaped team shipping products or features for other developers.
• 4+ years of experience managing people and developing engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong technical background with ability to engage in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs.
• Ability to translate engineering goals and user needs into roadmaps and shipped features.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Experience improving Reliability and/or Developer Experience through tooling, processes, and team practices.
• Deep experience with open source technologies supporting an internal platform tool or cluster, build & deployment systems, CI/CD, observability, and/or configuration management.

• Background working on highly scalable distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
• Experience on teams managing large fleets of developer environments, sandboxes, or testing ecosystems.
• Experience building platforms and/or products used directly by developers.

Salary range: $204K – $280K, plus equity. Benefits include 4 weeks of paid vacation, 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, long-term disability, life insurance, 401K plans, 100% employer-paid medical coverage, 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage, FSAs and HSAs, monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, monthly cell phone and internet subsidy, commuter benefits for Bay Area employees, home office stipends for remote employees, and continuous learning benefits.

Apply via the provided application link. This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship.