200K–275K USD / year
Engineering Manager, Security
Engineering managerRemote — United States
Published on 2026-11-05
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About this role
Lead Render’s Trust & Safety engineering work to prevent fraud and abuse and protect customers from malicious activity. Manage the team building detection, investigation, enforcement, and platform-protection systems, while coordinating incident response and partnering across the business.
About the company
Render is a cloud platform for deploying web services, databases, and static sites with managed infrastructure. It targets developers who want production hosting without operating their own cloud stack.
The team
Trust & Safety within the Security team.
Stack
GoTypeScriptKubernetesPostgresTerraformTemporal
What you'll do
- Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; manage performance and career growth.
- Set the roadmap, balancing operational response with prevention and automation.
- Guide systems to detect phishing, malicious workloads, payment fraud, and other abuse.
- Build investigation and enforcement tools that support fast, consistent decisions and appeals.
- Lead significant fraud and abuse incident response and establish sustainable on-call practices.
- Partner across Product and Engineering to add protections while balancing onboarding friction and false positives.
- Use metrics to track losses, detection and response time, repeat abuse, false positives, and operational workload.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years managing and developing engineers, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
- Strong software and security engineering background, with sound system-design judgment.
- Experience building or operating fraud-prevention, abuse-detection, Trust & Safety, or adversarial-security systems.
- Experience leading teams with on-call or incident-response responsibilities.
- Ability to turn ambiguous threats and business needs into clear priorities and shipped improvements.
- Use data to assess detection quality and measure the impact of interventions.
- Clear communication and effective collaboration with technical and non-technical partners.
Nice to have
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or customer-controlled workloads.
- Experience with payment fraud, phishing, malware hosting, account compromise, or coordinated abuse.
- Experience building threat-intelligence pipelines or integrating external reputation signals.
- Familiarity with Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, or Temporal.
- Experience partnering with Legal and customer-facing teams on enforcement decisions and abuse reports.
- Experience scaling a team at a growing company.
Benefits
- Four weeks of paid vacation.
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- Employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for the employee and a dependent.
- 401(k), long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend and cell phone and internet subsidy.
- Remote home-office stipend.
- Continuous learning benefits and support.