Engineering Manager, Security

Render

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

Posted 11/5/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $200,000 - $275,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading Trust & Safety engineering teams, focusing on fraud prevention, abuse detection, and incident response. Proficient in guiding system design and leveraging data to enhance operational effectiveness and customer protections.

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Team LeadershipFraud Prevention SystemsIncident Response ManagementSoftware and Security EngineeringCloud Infrastructure Experience

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Hard Skills

Fraud PreventionAbuse DetectionSystem DesignData EvaluationThreat Intelligence PipelinesGoTypeScriptKubernetesPostgresTerraform

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationEffective CollaborationEmpathySound JudgementStrong Ownership

Tools & Technologies

Cloud InfrastructureDeveloper PlatformsIncident Learning ToolsEscalation PathsRunbooks

Industry Keywords

Trust & SafetyAdversarial SecurityPayment FraudPhishingMalware HostingAccount CompromiseCoordinated Abuse Campaigns

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudKubernetesPostgresTerraformTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and grow the Trust & Safety engineering team through hiring, mentorship, regular feedback, performance management, and career development
Define the team roadmap, balancing investigations and operational needs with prevention, automation, and platform protections
Guide design and delivery of systems detecting phishing, malicious workloads, payment fraud, and other platform abuse
Build investigation and enforcement tooling for rapid, consistent responder decisions, escalations, and appeals
Lead responses to significant fraud and abuse incidents with Security, Infrastructure, Support, Finance, and Legal
Establish sustainable on-call and response practices, including ownership, runbooks, escalation paths, and incident learning
Partner with Product and Engineering to introduce protections across the customer lifecycle while balancing onboarding friction and false positives
Turn attacker behavior and recurring abuse campaign knowledge into protections that reduce repeat incidents
Define and use metrics for fraud losses, detection and response time, false positives, repeat abuse, and operational workload
Render builds a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years experience managing and developing engineers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and building a healthy, inclusive team
Strong background in software and security engineering
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
Sound judgement when decisions must be made with incomplete information
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
Empathy for customers and responders, high integrity, and strong ownership
Experience with cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or services running 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
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
Position generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at Render's discretion with business authorization

Benefits

Comp & perks

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