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Engineering Manager, Object Storage
Remote: United States · Senior
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About the role
- This role blends strong technical leadership with product thinking: you'll partner closely with product managers and designers to translate user needs into a high-quality, scalable system, that developers rely on every day.
- You'll be responsible for guiding technical direction, developing engineers, and ensuring the team ships meaningful improvements quickly while maintaining the high standards that define Render's platform.
- The ideal candidate brings a strong engineering background, a deep sense of ownership, experience building stateful services, and a passion for building products that developers love.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead a team of object storage engineers, supporting their development through mentorship, feedback, and clear technical guidance.
- Drive execution on key product initiatives from ideation through launch, balancing speed with high standards of reliability and quality.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and Infra teams to translate customer needs into thoughtful technical solutions and product roadmaps.
- Engage deeply in technical discussions, guiding system design decisions and helping the team navigate architectural tradeoffs.
- Help the team break down complex problems into incremental milestones that deliver value quickly while supporting long-term platform evolution.
- Strong technical background with the ability to engage deeply in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs.
- As an Engineering Manager for Object Storage, you will build and lead a group of talented engineers creating an object storage product (and in the future, abstractions on top of object storage) on the Render platform.
- We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
Requirements
- 8+ years as an Engineer shipping products and/or features that have downstream impact on the business and product ecosystem.
- Ideally, experience with building stateful services.
- 2+ years of experience managing people and developing engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management.
- Product-oriented mindset with experience translating business goals and user needs into engineering roadmaps and shipped features.
- Ability to balance urgency with thoughtful execution, helping teams ship quickly while maintaining high quality.
- Experience improving engineering velocity through tooling, processes, and team practices.
Benefits
- 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child.
- 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.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
- Continuous learning benefits & related support.
- Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
Company info
- Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms-so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure.
- 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.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner closely with product management, customers, and internal teams to understand needs, align priorities, and ensure delivery of impactful features and solutions.
Equal opportunity
- Please contact us to request accommodation.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship.
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