Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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: 

Render is scaling rapidly. Our customers have created hundreds of thousands of services on our platform, and the numbers continue to accelerate. Our customers trust us to deliver a secure, reliable and performant cloud — this is our top priority as a company. By joining us at an early stage, you will design and build the cloud infrastructure you've always wanted for yourself, and make decisions that will shape our product and company, directly impacting developers around the globe.

We are looking for engineers with deep specialization in cloud infrastructure. We are particularly interested in experience with container orchestration, low-level networking, and storage management. Areas of focus this year will be improving our architecture to schedule & spin up containers orders of magnitude faster,  develop offerings to support our customers' growing AI workloads, improving the performance of and adding new features to our internal traffic routing & load balancing, and building low-level primitives to enable our users to massively parallelize data processing workloads.

You will:

• Own Render's core infrastructure across multiple data centers and regions.
• Help offer unique capabilities to Render customers through infrastructure innovation.
• Plan and architect for rapidly increasing scale.
• Debug issues at all levels in our infrastructure stack.
• Improve the performance and reliability of our infrastructure through increased observability, load testing, and chaos engineering.
• Collaborate with other engineers to help keep our platform stable, predictable, and secure.
• Participate in our on-call rotation, with the rest of the engineering team.

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 with similar resource/container orchestration.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible.

Nice-to-haves:

• 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.

Recent Blog posts from the Render Engineering Team:

• 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

Benefits we offer at Render:

• Our openings span more than one career level. The starting salary for this role is between $150,000 and $220,000 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.
• 12 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 too.
• Monthly wellness stipend.
• 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!