Senior Engineering Manager, Agent Platform & Growth

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks of paid vacation

14 weeks of parental leave

Long-term disability, life insurance,

401K plans

Medical coverage 100%

Dental and vision coverage for you and

Monthly lifestyle stipend

Cell phone and internet subsidy

Commuter benefits and home office stip

Continous learning benefits

Job summary

Render is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Agent Platform & UX to lead two teams rewriting onboarding and activation for humans and AI agents. You will own the self-serve journey roadmap, drive API-driven experiences for agents, and partner with product and design to align plans with growth and platform needs.

You will hire and grow engineers, shape architecture for long-term investments, and foster a culture of learning and collaboration across a fast-moving developer platform.

Qualifications

• Strong people leadership is the top priority.
• Hands-on enough to review code, prototype, and contribute when needed.
• Experience building and scaling multiple teams.
• Experience managing and developing senior engineers (IC5+).
• Ability to partner with product and design without filling those functions yourself.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow two teams, UX (human onboarding/activation) and Agent Platform (API-based onboarding for agents).
• Own the roadmap for the self-serve user journey from first touch through activation, monetization, usage expansion, and feature adoption.
• Drive the agent-facing API-driven experiences enabling agent integration with Render.
• Partner with product and design to align roadmap with customer, growth, and platform needs.
• Hire and develop engineers to support team growth while keeping focus clear as they scale.
• Make key architectural and product decisions balancing long-term platform investment with incremental improvements.
• Build a strong performance management and career development practice for senior ICs.

Skills

Strong people leadership

Hands-on coding

Scaling teams

Senior IC management

Product & design collaboration

Tools

MCP

CLI

API

SDK

Blueprints

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 episodic 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 Senior Engineering Manager for Agent Platform & UX, you will lead two teams reimagining Render's onboarding and activation experience for both humans and AI agents.

One team owns the experience a person sees the first time they come to Render: signup, onboarding, activation, and what drives them to adopt more of the platform. The other team builds the equivalent experience for agents, which reach Render through APIs rather than the UI, integrating with providers like Codex, Claude, and Cursor so agents can use Render the way humans do. You'll take an already-forming org through its next stage of growth.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow two teams, UX (human onboarding and activation) and Agent Platform (the equivalent experience for agents via programmatic interfaces like the MCP, CLI, API, SDK, and Blueprints)

• Own the roadmap for Render's self-serve user journey, from first touch through activation, initial monetization, usage expansion, new feature adoption, and PQL graduation

• Drive the agent-facing side of the platform: build the API-driven experience that lets agents integrate with and operate on Render

• Partner with the dedicated product and design partners on both teams to align roadmap with customer, growth, and platform needs

• Hire and develop engineers to support planned team growth, while keeping both teams' identities and focus areas clear as they scale

• Make key architectural and product decisions, balancing long-term platform investment against iterative improvements to onboarding and activation

• Build a strong performance management and career development practice for a team that already includes senior ICs

What We're Looking For

• Strong people leadership - the top priority for this role

• Hands‑on enough to review code, prototype, and contribute directly when it helps the team

• Comfort operating in ambiguity, with adaptability and a growth mindset

• Proven experience building and scaling more than one team, ideally growing a group from a handful of engineers into a larger org

• Experience managing and developing senior (IC5+) engineers, including hiring and performance management

• Ability to partner closely with product and design without needing to fill those functions yourself

• Strong product instincts, with the ability to connect engineering investment to growth and activation outcomes

• Background from a startup preferred, though experience at a larger company can work too. What matters is the ability to operate at pace

Nice‑to‑Haves

• Prior growth‑focused engineering experience (onboarding, activation, funnel optimization)

• Experience building developer‑ or agent‑facing product experiences, and integrating with AI coding tools such as Codex, Claude, or Cursor

• Background in developer platforms or DevTools

• Experience helping a team split or reorganize as it scales into multiple teams

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!