Engineering Manager, Governance & Access

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

$204,000 – $289,000

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 a small but strategically important team building identity, access control, and governance systems for a developer cloud platform, with the distinctive challenge of designing these capabilities for both human users and AI agents operating autonomously on the platform.

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

What they ask for

Required

Strong people leadership
Experience managing and developing engineers
Track record building and scaling a team from early stage
Comfort operating in ambiguity and adapting as scope evolves
Ability to partner with product and design without filling those roles

Nice to have

Experience in security, governance, or access management (IAM, RBAC, compliance)
Exposure to building for AI agents or agentic systems
Experience managing senior (IC5-level) engineers
Background in developer platforms or B2B SaaS products