Engineering Manager, Platform

Remote: United States, San Francisco HQ, Remote: Canada · Remote · Senior

$204,000 – $280,000

Listed on Render’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

Lead Render's newly formed Platform team, responsible for modernizing the internal developer platform and shared production infrastructure that serves millions of developers. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management, requiring you to guide system architecture decisions while mentoring and growing a team of engineers.

Our summary, not Render’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

8+ years as an engineer on infrastructure or platform teams shipping products for developers
4+ years managing people, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management
Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, and design
Deep technical background in system design and architecture
Ability to translate engineering goals into roadmaps and shipped features
Strong sense of ownership for team outcomes and system health
Experience improving reliability or developer experience through tooling and processes
Deep experience with open source technologies, build systems, CI/CD, observability, or configuration management

Nice to have

Background with highly scalable distributed systems or infrastructure platforms
Experience managing large fleets of developer environments, sandboxes, or testing ecosystems
Experience building platforms or products used directly by developers