Engineering Manager, Platform

The role

You will lead and grow a team of platform engineers to modernize Render's internal developer platform and shared production infrastructure. You will partner with product managers and other engineering teams to translate user needs into scalable systems.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team of platform engineers through mentorship, feedback, and technical guidance.
• Drive execution on key product initiatives from ideation through launch.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Engage in technical discussions and guide system design decisions.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging tools, and developer practices.
• Break down complex problems into incremental milestones.
• Ensure teams maintain understanding of developer experience, reliability, security, and velocity.
• Partner with Runtime, Security, and Product teams to align priorities and ensure delivery.

Required 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.
• 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.

Nice to have

• 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.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• 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.
• 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.