Director of Security

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:

Lead and grow the Security function for Render, working with world-class engineers and directly with the executive team. This role will be both external and internal facing, guiding our security strategy and business posture and leading the teams to achieve it.

You will also be a senior member of the Engineering Leadership team, working directly with the VP of Engineering to build a culture of excellence and high cadence of delivery.

This is a new role, representing the importance and impact you will bring to Render as we enter our next phase of growth.

You will:

• Develop Security Strategy: Work with executives to develop and adapt a company security plan that aligns with business objectives and risk tolerance.
• Lead the Team: Directly lead the Security Engineering team and collaborate with other Engineering teams to implement and maintain our security posture.
• Drive Business Impact: Identify certifications and other security work we need as a business and for our market moves, create the implementation plans, and lead the teams (beyond Security) in execution.
• Lead Investigations: Build and maintain a rapid response culture to security incidents and lead the investigation, collaborating with legal resources and executives to ensure a proper business response.
• Make Render Known for Security: Act as the external point of contact for security questions, as well as collaborating with Sales and GTM to support market awareness of Render’s security offerings. Raising awareness of Render security excellence possibly includes speaking at conferences, writing or editing blog posts, and other outside work.

We're looking for someone who has:

• 10+ years of experience in computer science and security.
• At least 3 years of experience in senior leadership roles (Director+) in security, as well as experience directly leading security teams with on-call duties.
• Experience in leading teams through compliance implementation.
• Experience specifically in cloud security and data privacy.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience talking to customers, especially enterprise customers, alongside Sales and Marketing teams.
• Local to San Francisco Bay Area HQ.

Benefits

• Our openings span more than one career level. The starting salary for this role is between $230,000 and $270,000 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!