Engineering Manager, Governance & Access
Render · Remote: United States
About this role
## Engineering Manager, Governance & Access 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 hyperscaler power and developer-friendly simplicity—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on product instead of infrastructure. Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability—helping teams launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. --- ### About the Role As the **Engineering Manager for Governance & Access**, you’ll lead the team responsible for building **security, governance, and access** capabilities that help Render customers manage **teams, permissions, and environments** with confidence as they scale. You’ll design these capabilities for a world where **agents (not just humans)** operate on Render—turning emerging agentic use cases into **simple, reusable platform primitives** across: - **Identity** - **Authorization** - **Credentials** - **Delegation** This role spans both **traditional IAM** and **emerging agent infrastructure**, and you’ll help shape both the **team structure** and the **roadmap**. The team is small and the architectural foundations are still being defined—your work will become primitives used across millions of users. --- ### What You’ll Do - **Lead and grow** the Governance & Access team - **Own the roadmap** for governance, identity & access management, roles & permissions, and related compliance/security capabilities - Define how these capabilities extend to **agents operating on Render** (not only human users) - Partner with dedicated **product and design** partners to align roadmap with customer and platform needs - Build a strong **hiring and interview process** as the team scales - Make key **technical and architectural decisions** for access, identity, and governance systems - **Coach and develop** engineers through performance management and career growth - Coordinate with the adjacent **Security team** and the rest of the Growth & Expansion org as the platform evolves - Balance **security, usability, and speed**—knowing where strong guarantees are required vs. where iteration is appropriate --- ### What We’re Looking For - **Strong people leadership** (top priority) - Comfort operating in **ambiguity**, with flexibility as scope evolves - Experience building and scaling a team from an **early stage** - Track record managing and developing engineers, including **hiring** and **performance management** - Ability to partner closely with **product and design** without needing to fill those functions yourself - Ability to operate at pace --- ### Nice-to-Haves - Experience in **security, governance, or access management** (IAM, RBAC, compliance) - Exposure to building for **AI agents / agentic systems** - Experience managing **senior (IC5-level)** engineers - Background in **developer platforms** or **B2B SaaS** products --- ### Benefits - **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**; **99% employer-paid dental & vision** (for you and a dependent) - Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health/therapy, hobbies, etc. - Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy - Commuter benefits
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