Engineering Manager, 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 inform future team learning and 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, reliability, security, and velocity impact of the features they build
• ▹Partner closely with teams like Runtime, Security, and Product to understand needs and align priorities

Requirements

• ▹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, working 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
• ▹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 and 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

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹4 weeks of paid vacation
• ▹14 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• ▹Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401(k) plans
• ▹100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage (employee + one dependent)
• ▹FSA and HSA options
• ▹Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, and hobbies
• ▹Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy
• ▹Commuter benefits (Bay Area) and home office stipend for remote employees
• ▹Continuous learning benefits and support

About the company

Render builds the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications, used by more than 6 million developers worldwide. In February 2026 the company closed an additional $100M Series C round, bringing total funding to $257M, to accelerate its vision of cloud infrastructure that is both powerful and intuitive.