Engineering Manager, Security

The role

You will lead the Trust & Safety engineering team to prevent fraud and abuse on the Render platform. You will manage engineers who build detection pipelines, investigation tools, and automated enforcement systems.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the Trust & Safety engineering team through hiring, mentorship, and performance management.
• Define the team roadmap balancing investigations and platform protections.
• Guide the design and delivery of systems to detect phishing, malicious workloads, and payment fraud.
• Build investigation and enforcement tooling for responders.
• Lead the team's response to significant fraud and abuse incidents.
• Establish sustainable on-call and response practices.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to introduce protections in the customer lifecycle.
• Turn knowledge of attacker behavior into system improvements.
• Define and use metrics for fraud losses, detection time, and operational workload.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years experience managing and developing engineers, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Strong background in software and security engineering.
• Experience building or operating systems for fraud prevention, abuse detection, Trust & Safety, or adversarial security problems.
• Experience leading teams with on-call or incident response responsibilities.
• Ability to translate ambiguous threats and business needs into clear priorities.
• Experience using data to evaluate detection quality and operational problems.
• Clear communication and effective collaboration across engineering and business teams.
• High integrity and a strong sense of ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or services that run customer-controlled code and workloads.
• Experience addressing payment fraud, phishing, malware hosting, account compromise, or coordinated abuse campaigns.
• Experience building threat intelligence pipelines, linking related malicious accounts, or integrating external reputation signals.
• Familiarity with Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, or Temporal.
• Experience partnering with Legal and customer-facing teams on sensitive enforcement decisions and external abuse reports.
• Experience building and scaling a team at a growing company.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• 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 available.
• 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.
• Home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.

Before you apply

• 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.

About the company

Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. The platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide.