Engineering Manager, Expansion

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager, Expansion, you will lead a team responsible for building the platform capabilities and critical customer experiences that enable customers to scale successfully on Render.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for platform capabilities and critical customer experiences that support customer expansion and scale
• Own a significant portion of the platform and user experience, contributing to areas such as:
• APIs and integrations ecosystem
• Identity and access management (IAM), roles, and permissions
• Compliance and enterprise readiness features
• CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and operational tooling
• Define and evolve the systems and workflows that enable customers to:
• Integrate Render into their development and operational workflows
• Manage teams, permissions, and environments securely
• Deploy and operate services reliably at scale
• Build and scale foundational systems with a focus on reliability, extensibility, security, and usability
• Partner closely with Product and Design to align roadmap with customer and platform needs
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration across the platform
• Make and guide key architectural decisions for long-term platform evolution
• Balance long-term platform investments with iterative improvements to customer-facing workflows
• Foster a culture of ownership, quality, and operational excellence
• Hire and develop engineers as the team grows

Requirements

• Proven track record of leading teams building customer-facing product experiences in complex technical domains
• Strong technical background with the ability to guide the design of scalable, reliable product systems and workflows
• Experience building products on top of underlying platform capabilities such as CI/CD, IAM, compliance, APIs, or deployment systems
• Experience managing and developing engineers, including hiring and performance management
• Ability to operate in ambiguous, cross-functional environments and bring clarity to complex problem spaces
• Experience partnering closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams
• Strong product instincts and the ability to translate technical capabilities into intuitive customer experiences
• Clear ability to connect engineering investments to customer adoption, usability, and business impact

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working on developer-facing product experiences or technical workflows
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems, deployment workflows, IAM, or enterprise product capabilities
• Experience building products that depend on APIs, integrations, or platform subsystems
• Background in developer platforms, DevTools, or complex B2B SaaS products

Overview

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.