Software Engineer, Infrastructure

At Render we are building a powerful, easy-to-use cloud platform to host anything online: from simple static sites to complex applications with dozens of microservices. Render offers the flexibility of traditional cloud providers without their complexity and maintenance headaches so developers and businesses can focus on building products instead of managing servers.

We're a talented and diverse group solving a problem faced by every development team. We iterate quickly while placing the utmost importance on user experience, quality, and reliability. We push ourselves to do better every day. With tens of thousands of customers who love the product and rapidly increasing revenue, we're on to something big.

Applying to Render

We're looking for candidates with high integrity, low ego, and an insatiable drive to learn. We use reasoned discussion and constant feedback to improve as individuals and as a company. We cultivate mutual trust and respect empowering us to debate ideas effectively and create the best outcomes for our customers and our team. We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply.

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!