engineering
Posted Jun 5Engineering Manager, Platform
at render
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Drive execution on key product initiatives from ideation through launch, balancing speed with high standards of reliability and quality.
Requirements
- At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications.
- experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers.
- Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.
- We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.
- The ideal candidate brings a strong engineering background, a deep sense of ownership, and a passion for building products that developers love.
- - Ensure teams maintain a strong understanding of the developer
- 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.
- 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. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique
Experience
- WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 8+ years as an Engineer on an Infrastructure or similarly shaped team shipping products or features for other developers. - 4+ years of
Benefits
- In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $257M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development.
- 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.
- 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.
Additional details
- Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure.
- Our platform is trusted by over 6 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly.
- We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience.
- If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you.
- APPLYING TO RENDER We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn.
- Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively.
- We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.
- Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate
- experience just as much as our customer experience.
- We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.