Engineering Manager leading Governance & Access for Render, a developer-first cloud platform. Building identity, permissions, and agent-ready security primitives while scaling the team.
Responsibilities
Lead and grow the Governance & Access team
Own the roadmap for governance, identity and access management, roles and permissions, and related compliance and security capabilities
Define how these capabilities extend to agents operating on Render, not only human users
Partner with dedicated product and design partners to align the roadmap with customer and platform needs
Build a strong hiring and interview process as the team scales
Make key technical and architectural decisions for access, identity, and governance systems
Coach and develop engineers through performance management and career growth
Coordinate with the adjacent Security team and the rest of the Growth and Expansion organization
Balance security, usability, and speed, making pragmatic decisions about guarantees and iteration
Requirements
Strong people leadership
Comfort operating in ambiguity, with flexibility to adapt and grow as the team's scope evolves
Experience building and scaling a team from an early stage
Track record of managing and developing engineers, including hiring and performance management
Ability to partner closely with product and design without needing to fill those functions yourself
Experience in security, governance, or access management (IAM, RBAC, compliance) (nice-to-have)
Exposure to building for AI agents or agentic systems (nice-to-have)
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