Senior Engineering Manager, Product

Render

Senior Engineering Manager leading product engineers for Render’s AI-native cloud platform. Driving key product initiatives and fostering team development for high-quality, scalable systems.

Posted 7/14/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $236,000 - $324,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing and developing engineering teams, with a focus on system design, architecture, and product-oriented execution. Capable of translating business goals into actionable engineering roadmaps while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

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Team LeadershipSystem DesignProduct-Oriented MindsetStakeholder CollaborationEngineering Velocity Improvement

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Hard Skills

System DesignArchitectureEngineering TradeoffsProduct RoadmapsFeature DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesPerformance ManagementTechnical MentorshipCloud InfrastructureDistributed Systems

Soft Skills

CommunicationCollaborationOwnershipAccountabilityProblem-Solving

Industry Keywords

Developer PlatformsDevToolsEngineering PracticesCustomer ImpactProduct AdoptionRetention Strategies

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and grow a team of product engineers, supporting their development through mentorship, feedback, and clear technical guidance.
Hire out your team and build it into multiple teams.
Drive execution on key product initiatives from ideation through launch, balancing speed with high standards of reliability and quality.
Partner closely with Product and Design teams to translate customer needs into thoughtful technical solutions and product roadmaps.
Engage deeply in technical discussions, guiding system design decisions and helping the team navigate architectural tradeoffs.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across engineering practices and team processes.
Help the team break down complex problems into incremental milestones that deliver value quickly while supporting long-term platform evolution.
Ensure teams maintain a strong understanding of the developer experience and customer impact of the features they build.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner closely with product management, customers, and internal teams to understand needs, align priorities, and ensure delivery of impactful features and solutions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years as an Engineer shipping products and/or features that have downstream impact on the business and product ecosystem
4+ years of experience managing people and developing engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management.
Strong technical background with the ability to engage deeply in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs.
Product-oriented mindset with experience translating business goals and user needs into engineering roadmaps and shipped features.
A track record of successful collaboration with product, marketing, and customer support teams to drive adoption and retention.
Ability to balance urgency with thoughtful execution, helping teams ship quickly while maintaining high quality. Able to turn ambiguous problems into achievable goals.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and design.
A strong sense of ownership and accountability for both team outcomes and long-term system health.
Experience improving engineering velocity through tooling, processes, and team practices.
Nice-to-haves:
Experience building products for developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or DevTools.
Background working on highly scalable distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
Experience building products used directly by developers or technical users.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.