render - Engineering Manager, Platform
Requirements
• 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. • 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. • If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique experience might be just what we need.
Responsibilities
• 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 that will inform future team learning and opportunities for investment. • Help the team break down complex problems into incremental milestones that deliver value quickly while supporting long-term platform evolution. • 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 and solutions through thoughtful technical solutions and product roadmaps.
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. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return. • 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. FSAs and HSAs are available as well. • 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. • This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization. • Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight. • We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. • We encourage all who are interested to apply. We can't wait to hear from you! • Render — CCPA Applicant Privacy Notice https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wKr9IejoT5McFrs9I2mahQnf6AFwb3z2/view • Render — GDPR Applicant Privacy Notice https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_8jtyXQ1HdRdTdQn9sZ7n-R-zAGBmsFa/view
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