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Render is a modern cloud platform for developers building AI-native, full-stack applications. The company has raised $260M in funding (Series C in Feb 2026) and is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide.
As Engineering Manager for Governance & Access, you will lead a small, formative team responsible for building security, governance, and access capabilities that enable Render's customers to manage teams, permissions, and environments confidently at scale. This role sits at the intersection of traditional IAM and emerging agent infrastructure—a unique positioning that distinguishes it from typical security or IAM management roles.
You will design governance capabilities for a world where AI agents, not just humans, operate on Render, turning agentic use cases into simple, reusable platform primitives across identity, authorization, credentials, and delegation. The team is small and architectural foundations are still being defined, meaning the systems you build will become primitives used across millions of users.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and growing the Governance & Access team from an early stage
- Owning the roadmap for governance, identity and access management, roles, permissions, compliance, and security capabilities
- Defining how these capabilities extend to agents operating on Render, not only human users
- Partnering with dedicated product and design partners to align roadmap with customer and platform needs
- Building a strong hiring and interview process as the team scales
- Making key technical and architectural decisions for access, identity, and governance systems
- Coaching and developing engineers through performance management and career growth
- Coordinating with the adjacent Security team and Growth and Expansion org
- Balancing security, usability, and speed with pragmatic decision-making
Requirements:
- Strong people leadership (top priority)
- Comfort operating in ambiguity with flexibility to adapt as team scope evolves
- Experience building and scaling a team from early stage
- Track record of managing and developing engineers, including hiring and performance management
- Ability to partner closely with product and design without filling those functions yourself
- Background from either startup or larger company; what matters is ability to operate at pace
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience in security, governance, or access management (IAM, RBAC, compliance)
- Exposure to building for AI agents or agentic systems
- Experience managing senior (IC5-level) engineers
- Background in developer platforms or B2B SaaS products
