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Senior Engineering Manager, Product

Lead and grow teams of product engineers at Render, partnering with PMs and designers to translate user needs into scalable developer platform features. Requires 8+ years engineering experience and 4+ years managing teams with strong technical and product mindset.

About the job

What You'll Do

  • Lead and grow a team of product engineers, supporting their development through mentorship, feedback, and clear technical guidance.
  • Hire for your team and build it into multiple teams.
  • Drive execution on key product initiatives from ideation through launch, balancing speed with high standards of reliability and quality.
  • Partner closely with Product and Design teams to translate customer needs into thoughtful technical solutions and product roadmaps.
  • Engage deeply in technical discussions, guiding system design decisions and helping the team navigate architectural tradeoffs.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across engineering practices and team processes.
  • Help the team break down complex problems into incremental milestones that deliver value quickly while supporting long-term platform evolution.
  • Ensure teams maintain a strong understanding of the developer experience and customer impact of the features they build.
  • Partner closely with product management, customers, and internal teams to understand needs, align priorities, and ensure delivery of impactful features and solutions.

What We're Looking For

  • 8+ years as an Engineer shipping products and/or features that have downstream impact on the business and product ecosystem.
  • 4+ years of experience managing people and developing engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management.
  • Strong technical background with the ability to engage deeply in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs.
  • Product-oriented mindset with experience translating business goals and user needs into engineering roadmaps and shipped features.
  • A track record of successful collaboration with product, marketing, and customer support teams to drive adoption and retention.
  • Ability to balance urgency with thoughtful execution, helping teams ship quickly while maintaining high quality. Able to turn ambiguous problems into achievable goals.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and design.
  • A strong sense of ownership and accountability for both team outcomes and long-term system health.
  • Experience improving engineering velocity through tooling, processes, and team practices.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience building products for developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or DevTools.
  • Background working on highly scalable distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
  • Experience building products used directly by developers or technical users.

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.
  • Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
  • Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
  • Continuous learning benefits & related support.

Skills

System Design, Architecture, Engineering Management, Mentorship, Hiring, Product Roadmap, Technical Leadership, Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure, Devtools

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