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Engineering Manager, Platform

Render· Engineering Organization
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Remote$204k - $280kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager for the newly formed Platform team to modernize Render's internal developer platform and shared production infrastructure, driving technical direction, product thinking, and developer experience to support 4.5 million developers using Render's platform.

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.

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.

Skills

Required:Leadership and people managementSystem design and architectureCollaboration with product and design

Benefits

  • 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. 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.
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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