# Engineering Manager, Platform

**Company:** [Render](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/render)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $255k – $295k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Infrastructure, CI/CD, Observability, Configuration Management, System Design, Distributed Systems, Developer Experience, Reliability Engineering, Open Source Technologies, Platform Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-06-05

> Lead and grow a team of platform engineers building Render's internal developer platform and shared production infrastructure including observability, CI/CD, and developer environments. Requires 8+ years infrastructure engineering experience and 4+ years people management.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Lead and grow a team of platform engineers, supporting their development through mentorship, feedback, and clear technical guidance.
- Drive execution on key product initiatives from ideation through launch, balancing speed with high standards of reliability and quality.
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across engineering practices and team processes.
- Engage deeply in technical discussions, guiding system design decisions and helping the team navigate architectural tradeoffs.
- Stay up to date with relevant industry trends, emerging tools, and developer practices that will inform future team learning and opportunities for investment.
- 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 reliability, security, and velocity impact of the features they build.
- Partner closely with other teams like Runtime, Security, and Product to understand needs, align priorities, and ensure delivery of impactful features and solutions through thoughtful technical solutions and product roadmaps.

## What We're Looking For
- 8+ years as an Engineer on an Infrastructure or similarly shaped team shipping products or features for other developers.
- 4+ years of experience managing people and developing engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and design.
- Strong technical background with the ability to engage deeply in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs.
- Ability to translate engineering goals and user needs into roadmaps and shipped features.
- A strong sense of ownership and accountability for both team outcomes and long-term system health.
- Experience improving Reliability and/or Developer Experience through tooling, processes, and team practices.
- Deep experience with open source technologies supporting an internal platform tool or cluster, build & deployment systems, CI/CD, observability, and/or configuration management.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Background working on highly scalable distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
- Experience on teams managing large fleets of developer environments, sandboxes, or testing ecosystems.
- Experience building platforms and/or products used directly by developers.

## Benefits
- Equity with early-exercise options and extended exercise windows.
- 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
- Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
- 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage.
- FSAs and HSAs available.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend.
- Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
- Commuter benefits for Bay Area; home office stipends for remote.
- Continuous learning benefits.

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