Engineering Manager, Security

Render; United States; Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks paid vacation

14 weeks parental leave

Long-term disability, life insurance,

401K and employer-paid medical, dental

Wellness lifestyle stipend

Cell phone & internet subsidy

Commuter benefits (Bay Area) / home‑in

Continuous learning benefits

Job summary

Render is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Trust & Safety within its Security team. You will keep the platform trusted by preventing fraud and abuse, protecting customers, and guiding engineers in incident response and preventive investments.

You'll work with Product, Infrastructure, and Legal to translate threats into practical engineering work and ensure scalable protections across the customer lifecycle, while championing a healthy, inclusive team culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience managing and developing engineers.
• Strong background in software and security engineering.
• Experience building or operating systems for fraud prevention, abuse detection, Trust & Safety, or adversarial security.
• Experience leading teams with on-call or incident response responsibilities.
• Ability to translate threats into clear priorities and milestones.
• Experience using data to evaluate detection quality and operational problems.
• Clear communication across engineering and business teams.
• Empathy, integrity, and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Trust & Safety engineering team through hiring, mentorship, and career development.
• Define the team's roadmap balancing investigations and prevention investments.
• Guide design and delivery of systems that detect phishing, malicious workloads, and platform abuse.
• Build investigation and enforcement tooling with context for responders.
• Lead incident response coordination with other teams.
• Establish on-call practices, ownership, runbooks, and escalation paths.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to place protections in customer lifecycle.
• Turn attacker behavior knowledge into preventive improvements.
• Define metrics for losses, detection, and response to guide investment.

Skills

Engineering management

Security engineering

Fraud prevention

Incident response

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Threat intelligence

Communication

Ownership

Tools

Go

TypeScript

Kubernetes

Postgres

Terraform

Temporal

Job description

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 epithelial 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

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead Trust & Safety within Render's Security team. Your mission is to keep Render a trusted place to build and run applications by preventing fraud and abuse, protecting customers from malicious activity, and making it harder for attackers to use our platform.

You'll lead a team of engineers who build and operate the systems behind this work: detection pipelines, investigation tools, automated enforcement, and protections across the customer lifecycle. You'll combine strong people leadership with technical judgement, helping the team respond effectively to incidents while investing in systems that prevent recurring problems.

You'll partner closely with Product, Infrastructure, customer-facing teams, Finance, and Legal to translate emerging threats and customer needs into practical engineering work. The decisions your team makes will directly affect customer safety, platform reputation, fraud losses, and the experience of legitimate developers.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow the Trust & Safety engineering team through hiring, mentorship, regular feedback, performance management, and career development.

• Define the team's roadmap, balancing investigations and operational needs with sustained investments in prevention, automation, and platform protections.

• Guide the design and delivery of systems that detect phishing, malicious workloads, payment fraud, and other forms of platform abuse.

• Build investigation and enforcement tooling that gives responders the context to act quickly, records decisions, and supports consistent handling of escalations and appeals.

• Lead the team's response to significant fraud and abuse incidents, coordinating with other Security teams, Infrastructure, Support, Finance, and Legal.

• Establish sustainable on-call and response practices, including clear ownership, runbooks, escalation paths, and learning from incidents.

• Partner with Product and Engineering to introduce protections at the right points in the customer lifecycle, balancing prevention with onboarding friction and false positives.

• Turn knowledge of attacker behavior and recurring abuse campaigns into improvements that protect customers and reduce repeat incidents.

• Define and use metrics for fraud losses, detection and response time, false positives, repeat abuse, and operational workload to guide investment.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years experience managing and developing engineers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and building a healthy, inclusive team.

• A strong background in software and security engineering, with the ability to guide system design, review technical proposals, and make pragmatic architectural tradeoffs.

• Experience building or operating systems for fraud prevention, abuse detection, Trust & Safety, or adversarial security problems.

• Experience leading teams with on-call or incident response responsibilities, and sound judgement when decisions must be made with incomplete information.

• The ability to translate ambiguous threats and business needs into clear priorities, incremental milestones, and shipped improvements.

• Experience using data to evaluate detection quality, understand operational problems, and measure whether interventions work.

• Clear communication and effective collaboration across engineering and business teams, including explaining risks and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners.

• Empathy for customers and responders, high integrity, and a strong sense of ownership for both team outcomes and long-term system health.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or services that run customer-controlled code and workloads.

• Experience addressing payment fraud, phishing, malware hosting, account compromise, or coordinated abuse campaigns.

• Experience building threat intelligence pipelines, linking related malicious accounts, or integrating external reputation signals.

• Familiarity with Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, or Temporal.

• Experience partnering with Legal and customer-facing teams on sensitive enforcement decisions and external abuse reports.

• Experience building and scaling a team at a growing company.

If this role excites you but you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still love to hear from you-your unique experience might be just what we need.

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.

This position is generally not eligible for new visasponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.

Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We encourage all who are interested to apply. We can't wait to hear from you!

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