Engineering Manager, Infrastructure (Remote, US)

Who We AreRenew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.We partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone.We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard.We strongly encourage candidates to check out our website at www.renewhome.com to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing.Role SummaryYou'll lead the Infrastructure team — a group of 5-8 engineers responsible for the foundation everything else at Renew Home runs on. The team owns cloud accounts, networking, security, CI/CD, deployment tooling, observability, and the developer experience that surrounds all of it. Other engineering teams build on top of what your team provides — your team's leverage shows up in how fast the rest of the company can ship.This is a hands-on engineering manager role. You'll spend most of your time on people, planning, and cross-team alignment, but you should be technical enough to debate architecture, review a tricky design doc, and sense when a project is in trouble before it lands on your desk.What You Will DoThe team. Hiring, growth, performance, and career development for seven engineers across three sub-disciplines. Setting expectations, giving direct feedback, and building a team people want to stay onThe roadmap. Translating company priorities into an infra roadmap that balances reliability work, platform investment, security posture, and the steady stream of "unblock the product team" asksOperational health. Participate in on-call rotations, On-call rotation quality, incident response, postmortem culture, and the SLOs to keep the platform healthyCross-team partnership. You'll be the primary point of contact for product engineering, data, and security leadership. Your team's reputation lives or dies by how well it serves its consumersSecurity posture. Partnering with security engineering to drive identity, access, audit, and compliance work — making sure security is built into the platform rather than bolted onCI/CD and test automation. The health of the pipelines, runners, and test infrastructure the entire engineering org relies on. Partnering with your automation engineers to drive build times down, flake rates down, and developer confidence upBudget and vendor relationships. Cloud spend, tooling decisions, and the buy-vs-build calls that compound over timeRequirements5+ years managing infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps teams, with prior IC experience in one of those disciplinesTrack record of running an on-call rotation — maintain clear ownership, useful runbooks, alerts that mean somethingExperience hiring and growing senior engineers, including giving direct feedback and managing performance honestlyStrong production cloud experience, with real depth in at least one major hyperscaler provider (AWS/GCP/Azure)Strong experience in CI/CD, and identity & access. Demonstrated ability to set roadmap priorities under pressure, including saying no and sequencing deferred workComfortable operating across teams: partnering with product engineering leads, operations, and finance without losing the threadBonuses:Background managing or working closely with security engineers — shaping a security program, not just shipping point fixesMulti-cloud experienceExperience scaling a platform team through company growth (10 → 30 → 100+ engineers served)Background in energy, utilities, IoT, or other regulated / SLO-sensitive domainsFluency with AI-assisted development tools and a perspective on how to roll them out across a platform team thoughtfullyBenefitsWhat You'll GetThe base salary for this role is $200k - $240k. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for a target annual bonus of 15% of base salary, and participation in long-term incentive programs tied to company growth and performance. We use market data and consider your job family, background, skills, experience, and U.S. work location to determine compensation within our established pay rangeFully remote work environment with home office set-up allowanceReal and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families firstCompetitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same. Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every dayAt this time, Renew Home is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future immigration from the company, including training plans for foreign students.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYERIndividuals seeking employment at Renew Home are considered without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identification, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.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.