Engineering Manager, Security

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead Trust & Safety within Render’s Security team. Your mission is to keep Render a trusted place to build and run applications by preventing fraud and abuse, protecting customers from malicious activity, and making it harder for attackers to use our platform.

You’ll lead a team of engineers who build and operate the systems behind this work: detection pipelines, investigation tools, automated enforcement, and protections across the customer lifecycle. You’ll combine strong people leadership with technical judgement, helping the team respond effectively to incidents while investing in systems that prevent recurring problems.

You’ll partner closely with Product, Infrastructure, customer-facing teams, Finance, and Legal to translate emerging threats and customer needs into practical engineering work. The decisions your team makes will directly affect customer safety, platform reputation, fraud losses, and the experience of legitimate developers.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Lead and grow the Trust & Safety engineering team through hiring, mentorship, regular feedback, performance management, and career development.

- Define the team’s roadmap, balancing investigations and operational needs with sustained investments in prevention, automation, and platform protections.

- Guide the design and delivery of systems that detect phishing, malicious workloads, payment fraud, and other forms of platform abuse.

- Build investigation and enforcement tooling that gives responders the context to act quickly, records decisions, and supports consistent handling of escalations and appeals.

- Lead the team’s response to significant fraud and abuse incidents, coordinating with other Security teams, Infrastructure, Support, Finance, and Legal.

- Establish sustainable on-call and response practices, including clear ownership, runbooks, escalation paths, and learning from incidents.

- Partner with Product and Engineering to introduce protections at the right points in the customer lifecycle, balancing prevention with onboarding friction and false positives.

- Turn knowledge of attacker behavior and recurring abuse campaigns into improvements that protect customers and reduce repeat incidents.

- Define and use metrics for fraud losses, detection and response time, false positives, repeat abuse, and operational workload to guide investment.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- 5+ years experience managing and developing engineers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and building a healthy, inclusive team.

- A strong background in software and security engineering, with the ability to guide system design, review technical proposals, and make pragmatic architectural tradeoffs.

- Experience building or operating systems for fraud prevention, abuse detection, Trust & Safety, or adversarial security problems.

- Experience leading teams with on-call or incident response responsibilities, and sound judgement when decisions must be made with incomplete information.

- The ability to translate ambiguous threats and business needs into clear priorities, incremental milestones, and shipped improvements.

- Experience using data to evaluate detection quality, understand operational problems, and measure whether interventions work.

- Clear communication and effective collaboration across engineering and business teams, including explaining risks and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners.

- Empathy for customers and responders, high integrity, and a strong sense of ownership for both team outcomes and long-term system health.

NICE-TO-HAVES

- Experience with cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or services that run customer-controlled code and workloads.

- Experience addressing payment fraud, phishing, malware hosting, account compromise, or coordinated abuse campaigns.

- Experience building threat intelligence pipelines, linking related malicious accounts, or integrating external reputation signals.

- Familiarity with Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, or Temporal.

- Experience partnering with Legal and customer-facing teams on sensitive enforcement decisions and external abuse reports.

- Experience building and scaling a team at a growing company.