Engineering Manager, Security

Render is hiring a full-time Engineering Manager, Security for a remote position in the United States. The manager will lead the Trust and Safety engineering team within Security. The work focuses on preventing fraud and platform abuse, protecting customers, and making Render harder for malicious users to exploit. WorkinVirtual is presenting this independently curated summary; Render is the hiring employer and applications go to its official careers page.

What the role involves

• Hire, coach, and develop the engineers on the Trust and Safety team, including performance management and career growth.
• Set the team’s roadmap, balancing investigations and incident work with longer-term prevention, automation, and platform defenses.
• Guide systems that detect phishing, malicious workloads, payment fraud, and other misuse of the platform.
• Improve investigation and enforcement tools so responders can gather context, document decisions, and handle escalations and appeals consistently.
• Coordinate significant fraud and abuse incidents with Security, Infrastructure, Support, Finance, and Legal.
• Build sustainable on-call practices, clear ownership, runbooks, and incident learning.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to add safeguards throughout the customer lifecycle while considering legitimate users and false positives.
• Use measures such as fraud loss, detection and response time, repeat abuse, and operational workload to guide priorities.

Required experience

• At least five years managing and developing engineers, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• A strong software and security engineering background, with the judgment to guide system design and technical tradeoffs.
• Experience with fraud prevention, abuse detection, Trust and Safety, or adversarial security systems.
• Experience leading teams with on-call or incident response responsibilities.
• Ability to turn uncertain threats and business needs into practical milestones and shipped improvements.
• Comfort using data to assess detection quality and operational outcomes, and communicating risks across technical and business teams.

Additional experience and benefits

Render says experience with cloud or developer platforms, payment fraud, phishing, malware hosting, account compromise, threat intelligence, and growing engineering teams would be useful. Familiarity with Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, or Temporal is also listed as helpful rather than required. The employer lists four weeks of paid vacation, 14 weeks of paid parental leave, health coverage, disability and life insurance, a retirement plan, lifestyle and connectivity stipends, support for learning, and a home-office stipend for remote employees. Eligibility and exact terms depend on Render’s policies. The posting does not disclose a numerical salary range. New visa sponsorship is generally unavailable; Render says some existing visa transfers may be considered at its discretion with business authorization. Read the current employer posting and apply directly on Render’s official job page.