[Hiring] Engineering Manager, Platform @Render

Role Description

As Engineering Manager for the newly formed Platform team, you’ll lead a growing group of talented engineers — both established team members and future hires — who are energized by the opportunity to build this space alongside you.

Together, you will modernize and bring Render's internal developer platform and shared production infrastructure (observability, CI/CD, developer environments, storage, and more) from good to great.

• Enhance the velocity and impact of fellow Render engineers and the 4.5 million developers using our platform.
• Blend strong technical leadership with product thinking.
• Partner closely with other engineering teams and product managers to translate user needs into high-quality, scalable systems.
• Guide technical direction, develop engineers, and ensure the team ships meaningful improvements quickly.

What You'll Do

• 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 across engineering practices and team processes.
• Engage deeply in technical discussions, guiding system design decisions and helping the team navigate architectural tradeoffs.
• Stay up to date with relevant industry trends, emerging tools, and developer practices.
• Help the team break down complex problems into incremental milestones that deliver value quickly.
• Ensure teams maintain a strong understanding of the developer experience and reliability, security, and velocity impact of the features they build.
• Partner closely with other teams like Runtime, Security, and Product to understand needs, align priorities, and ensure delivery of impactful features.

Qualifications

• 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, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and design.
• Strong technical background with the ability to engage deeply in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs.
• Ability to translate engineering goals and user needs into roadmaps and shipped features.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability for both team outcomes and long-term system health.
• 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.

Nice-to-Haves

• 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.

Benefits

• This opportunity is also eligible for equity with early-exercise options and extended exercise windows.
• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.