Engineering Manager, Governance & Access

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About the role

  • 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)
  • Experience managing senior (IC5-level) engineers (nice-to-have)
  • Background in developer platforms or B2B SaaS products (nice-to-have)
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States
  • New visa sponsorship generally unavailable; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at Render's discretion with business authorization

Benefits

  • 4 weeks of paid vacation
  • 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • 401K plans
  • 100% employer-paid medical coverage for you and a dependent
  • 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent
  • FSAs and HSAs 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
  • Equity

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$204,000 - $250,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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