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Software Engineer, Infrastructure in Engineering Department
in Render - United States, United States / Canada

Salary value: $170K-$290K • Offers Equity

Remote
Full-time
Not specified
Full-Time

Job description

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At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications.

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. Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you’re building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.

Our platform is trusted by over 4.5 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $257M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive-designed for the speed of modern AI development.

We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience.

If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you. 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. We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each

What We’re Looking For

  • At least 5 years of experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging production systems at scale.
  • Experience building, operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters or similar resource/container orchestration.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible.

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If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you-your unique experience might be just what we need. 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! Render – CCPA Applicant Privacy Notice Render – GDPR Applicant Privacy Notice

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Benefits

  • This opportunity is also eligible for equity with early-exercise options and extended exercise windows.
  • 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. 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 and HSAs are available as well.
  • 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, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
  • Continuous learning benefits & related support.

Job requirements

  • Experience with Linux kernel and/or container optimization.
  • Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Experience hosting PostgreSQL (or similar data stores) at scale.
  • Security hardening skills, especially in the context of untrusted workloads.
  • SEV0 SF 2025 | Boundary Cases: Technical and social challenges in cross-system debugging.
  • Kubernetes Informers are so easy… to misuse!
  • How Render Scaled Knative to 100k+ Web Apps.
  • Distributing Global State to Serve over 1 Billion Daily Requests.
  • How Render Enforces Access Controls with Go Generics.
  • Breaking down OpenAI’s outage: How to avoid a hidden DNS dependency in Kubernetes.
  • This opportunity is also eligible for equity with early-exercise options and extended exercise windows.
  • 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. 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 and HSAs are available as well.
  • 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, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
  • Continuous learning benefits & related support.