Software Engineer, Infrastructure (all levels)

Job description

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 6.5 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 requirement listed. 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's mission is to eliminate the undifferentiated work that goes into building software products by offering an easy-to-use, powerful cloud platform for developer teams of all sizes. We are 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 platform 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 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. WHAT YOU'LL DO - 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. 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. 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. RELEVANT LINKS FROM THE RENDER ENGINEERING TEAM - SEV0 SF 2025 | Boundary Cases: Technical and social challenges in cross-system debugging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4hAyzmBNXk - Kubernetes Informers are so easy... to misuse! https://render.com/blog/kubernetes-informers - How Render Scaled Knative to 100k+ Web Apps https://render.com/blog/knative - Distributing Global State to Serve over 1 Billion Daily Requests https://render.com/blog/distributing-global-state-to-serve-over-1-billion-daily-requests - How Render Enforces Access Controls with Go Generics https://render.com/blog/how-render-enforces-access-controls-with-go-generics - Breaking down OpenAI's outage: How to avoid a hidden DNS dependency in Kubernetes https://render.com/blog/a-hidden-dns-dependency-in-kubernetes 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 - 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. This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization. Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and 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! 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