Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Render, a rapidly scaling cloud platform trusted by over 2 million developers, as a core infrastructure engineer. You will play a crucial role in designing and building our cloud infrastructure, impacting developers worldwide. This early-stage opportunity allows you to shape our product and company. We are seeking engineers with deep specialization in cloud infrastructure, particularly container orchestration, low-level networking, and storage management. The role involves owning core infrastructure, offering unique capabilities to customers, planning for scale, debugging issues, and improving performance and reliability. We offer competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• The starting salary for this role is between $150,000 and $220,000 USD
• 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