Engineering Manager, Security

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead and expand the Trust & Safety engineering team through effective hiring, mentorship, ongoing feedback, performance management, and career advancement.

• Develop the team’s roadmap, ensuring a balance between investigative and operational requirements alongside prevention, automation, and platform safeguards.

• Oversee the design and implementation of systems that detect phishing, malicious workloads, payment fraud, and other forms of platform abuse.

• Create investigation and enforcement tools to facilitate rapid and consistent decision-making for responders, escalations, and appeals.

• Direct responses to major fraud and abuse incidents in collaboration with Security, Infrastructure, Support, Finance, and Legal teams.

• Establish sustainable on-call and response protocols, including ownership responsibilities, runbooks, escalation paths, and lessons learned from incidents.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to implement protections throughout the customer lifecycle while minimizing onboarding friction and false positives.

• Transform insights on attacker behavior and recurring abuse campaigns into protective measures that decrease the incidence of repeat offenses.

• Define and monitor metrics related to fraud losses, detection and response times, false positives, repeat abuse instances, and operational workloads.

• Render builds a modern cloud platform enabling developers to create AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in managing and developing engineers, including responsibilities in hiring, coaching, performance management, and fostering a healthy, inclusive team environment.

• A solid background in software and security engineering.

• Expertise in guiding system design, reviewing technical proposals, and making practical architectural trade-offs.

• Experience in building or managing systems focused on fraud prevention, abuse detection, Trust & Safety, or adversarial security challenges.

• Proven experience leading teams responsible for on-call or incident response duties.

• Strong judgement skills for making decisions with incomplete information.

• Capability to translate ambiguous threats and business needs into clear priorities, incremental goals, and tangible improvements.

• Proficient in utilizing data to assess detection quality, identify operational challenges, and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions.

• Excellent communication skills and effective collaboration across engineering and business teams.

• Demonstrated empathy for customers and responders, along with high integrity and a strong sense of ownership.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or services managing customer-controlled code and workloads.

• Experience addressing issues related to payment fraud, phishing, malware hosting, account compromises, or coordinated abuse campaigns.

• Background in building threat intelligence pipelines, connecting related malicious accounts, or integrating external reputation signals.

• Knowledge of Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, or Temporal.

• Previous collaboration with Legal and customer-facing teams on sensitive enforcement decisions and external abuse reports.

• Experience in scaling and building a team within a growing organization.

• Must possess legal authorization to work in the United States.

• This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; however, existing visa transfers may be considered at Render's discretion with appropriate business authorization.

🏝️ Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.

• Long-term disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• 401K plans.

• 100% employer-paid medical coverage.

• 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.

• FSAs and HSAs available.

• 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.

• Home office stipends for remote Renders.

• Continuous learning benefits and related support.

• Equity offered.