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Engineering Manager, Governance & Access

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Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.

Employer listed it 3 weeks ago · Added 2 weeks ago

Been open since 3 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.

Salary

$204k to $289k per year

Location

Work style

Async

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Mid

Category

Software

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What the advert says

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Working hours
Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.
Where you can work from
Our platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly.
Contract
Not mentioned in the advert
Experience asked for
Not mentioned in the advert
Pay
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Remote flexibility

Region Restricted

Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in United States, Canada.

What the employer says

  • Source listing states candidate location: "Remote: United States, San Francisco HQ, Remote: Canada, Remote"

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  • Applications outside the listed area are usually rejected
  • Timezone overlap with the listed area is often expected

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About the role

At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure.

Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.

Our platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $260M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development.

We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you.

Applying to Render

We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.

We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.

Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.

About the Role

As the Engineering Manager for Governance & Access, you will lead the team responsible for building the security, governance, and access capabilities that let Render's customers manage teams, permissions, and environments with confidence as they scale.

You'll design these capabilities for a world where agents, not just humans, operate on Render, turning emerging agentic use cases into simple, reusable platform primitives across identity, authorization, credentials, and delegation. The problems span traditional IAM and emerging agent infrastructure, which is what distinguishes this role from a typical security or IAM job. You'll shape the team's structure as much as its roadmap. You'll also join at a formative moment: the team is small, the architectural foundations are still being defined, and the systems you build will become primitives used across millions of users.

What You’ll Do

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 the dedicated product and design partners already on the team to align roadmap with customer and platform needs

Build a strong hiring and interview process as the team scales, calibrating closely with recruiting and cross-functional partners

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 org as the platform evolves

Balance security, usability, and speed, making pragmatic decisions about where strong guarantees are required and where the team can iterate

What We’re Looking For

Strong people leadership - the top priority for this role

Comfort operating in ambiguity, with the flexibility to adapt and grow as the team's scope evolves

Requirements

The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.

Benefits

  • ·4 weeks of paid vacation.
  • ·14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
  • ·Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
  • ·100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs and HSAs are available as well.
  • ·Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.

How to apply

  1. 1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
  2. 2Tailor your CV to the role at Render, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
  3. 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

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$204k to $289k per year · You'll be taken to the employer's careers page.