Render
Render
Render is a cloud platform that helps developers and teams build, deploy, and operate applications without managing each infrastructure layer separately. Its product suite includes web services, static sites, cron jobs, background workers, PostgreSQL databases, and Redis management, with support for multiple programming languages and Docker images. Features such as automatic deployments, load-based autoscaling, and infrastructure as code support workflows from development through production, while DDoS protection and data privacy compliance address key operational and security needs.

Engineering Manager, Governance and Access — Render (Remote, United States)

Lead Render’s Governance & Access function at a developer-focused cloud platform. Build identity, permissions, and agent-ready security foundations while growing the team.

Description

  • Lead and expand the Governance & Access team
  • Set the roadmap for governance, identity and access management, roles and permissions, compliance, and related security capabilities
  • Determine how these capabilities should support agents operating on Render as well as human users
  • Work with dedicated product and design partners to connect the roadmap to customer and platform priorities
  • Establish a rigorous hiring and interviewing process as the team grows
  • Guide major technical and architectural decisions across access, identity, and governance systems
  • Support engineers through coaching, performance management, and career development
  • Coordinate with the Security team and the broader Growth and Expansion organization
  • Make pragmatic tradeoffs among security, usability, speed, guarantees, and iteration

Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability to lead people effectively
  • Comfort navigating ambiguity and adapting as the team’s scope develops
  • Experience establishing and scaling a team from an early stage
  • History of hiring, managing, and developing engineers, including performance management
  • Ability to collaborate closely with product and design partners without taking on their functions
  • Experience with security, governance, or access management, such as IAM, RBAC, or compliance is a plus
  • Familiarity with products built for AI agents or agentic systems is a plus
  • Experience managing senior, IC5-level engineers is a plus
  • Background in developer platforms or B2B SaaS products is a plus
  • Legal authorization to work in the United States
  • New visa sponsorship is generally unavailable; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at Render’s discretion with business authorization

Benefits

  • Four weeks of paid vacation
  • Fourteen weeks of fully paid parental leave for every parent
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • 401(k) plans
  • Medical coverage for you and one dependent fully paid by the employer
  • Dental and vision coverage for you and one dependent with 99% of premiums paid by the employer
  • Access to flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, and related needs
  • Monthly subsidy for mobile phone and internet costs
  • Commuter benefits for Render employees in the Bay Area
  • Home-office stipends for remote Render employees
  • Professional learning benefits and related support
  • Equity

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