Engineering Manager, Keystones

At Render, we're dedicated to building a powerful and user-friendly cloud that simplifies hosting for every developer and team. Our platform supports a wide range of applications, from simple static sites to complex multi-service architectures. By offering the flexibility of traditional cloud providers without their associated complexity and maintenance challenges, we enable our users to concentrate on product development instead of managing servers.

Our team is a diverse and talented group addressing universal challenges of software development. We prioritize rapid iteration while maintaining a strong focus on user experience, craft, and reliability. This commitment drives us to improve continually. Our organic, product-led growth has attracted over 2 million developers, with 100,000+ new developers signing up every month. Our customers trust Render for our reliable and scalable cloud with enterprise-grade capabilities, fully managed datastores, and advanced security and compliance features.

In January 2025, we reached a significant milestone by raising $80 million in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $157M. This investment enables us to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive, while catering to the evolving needs of the AI era.

Applying to Render:

We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.

Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.  

About the role:

Among our most successful and critical products are features we call “Keystones”: they are the backbone to our users’ services and ability to scale. We aim for these to be world-class offerings, with superior reliability, performance, and completeness. Currently these include Postgres, Redis, and ValKey.

This small team has a laser focus on excellence and creative thinking to outpace a broad market of competitors. We are looking for someone to lead this team with energy and business acumen, and build more critical Keystones for our customers.

You will:

• Drive Product Excellence: Define and execute a vision for world-class infrastructure products (Postgres, Redis, ValKey), ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability that exceeds customer expectations.Lead and Develop the Team: Inspire, coach, and grow a team of high-performing engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, creativity, and ownership.
• Create the Strategy and Roadmap: Collaborate with leadership and customers to identify market opportunities, prioritize product development, and build a roadmap for future "Keystone" offerings.
• Build Operational Efficiency: Optimize team processes to balance innovation and technical debt management, while maintaining operational excellence and minimizing interruptions.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner closely with product management, customers, and internal teams to understand needs, align priorities, and ensure delivery of impactful features and solutions.

We're looking for someone who has:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in management roles including managing and hiring managers
• Deep expertise in infrastructure technologies, particularly databases (Postgres, Redis) and distributed systems, with a track record of building scalable, reliable solutions.
• Ability to balance long-term technical strategy, technical debt, and urgent enablement of product delivery with optimism and energy.
• Ability to draw creative solutions from an expert team, and realize maximum business impact
• Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes

Nice-to-haves:

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-a-service or software-as-a-service markets, including their competitive dynamics and customer expectations.
• A track record of successful collaboration with sales, marketing, and customer support teams to drive adoption and retention.

Benefits

• Our openings span more than one career level. The starting salary for this role is between $170,000 and $210,000 USD. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, and market demands.
• The opportunity is also eligible for equity with early exercise options and extended exercise windows.
• 4 weeks of paid vacation, available from day one.
• 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 available as well.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental heath 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.

Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product, and our community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. 

We encourage all who are interested to apply. We can't wait to hear from you!