Software Engineer

Summary

Join Render's Datastores team and contribute to building easy-to-use, scalable data storage products for our customers. You will design and build features for our managed database offerings (PostgreSQL and Redis), focusing on user experience and improving the Render platform. This role requires 6+ years of software development experience, expertise in databases, web frameworks, and APIs, and collaboration with product and design stakeholders. You'll take end-to-end ownership of projects, participate in team planning, and contribute to a positive team culture. Render offers competitive salaries ($150,000-$220,000), equity, generous paid time off, comprehensive health insurance, parental leave, and various other benefits to support your well-being and professional growth.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience shipping software
• Experience collaborating with product and design stakeholders
• Experience wearing multiple hats and working across the stack, both collaboratively and independently
• Strong understanding of databases, web frameworks, and APIs, and experience working with multiple programming languages
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to make pragmatic decisions about your work

Responsibilities

• Deliver new features and user experience improvements to make the Render platform more powerful and valuable to our users
• Build new features for our managed database offerings to delight our customers (currently, we offer PostgreSQL and Redis)
• Help evolve and mature the Render codebase and technology as the product scales and increases in complexity over time
• Participate in team planning, roadmapping, and goal-setting
• Help shape team culture and practices as the company scales
• Debug issues at all levels in our infrastructure stack
• Participate in our on-call rotation, with the rest of the engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in databases, including but not limited to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, or CockroachDB
• Experience with any of the technologies the Render product runs on: Go, Typescript, React, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, or SignalFx
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible
• 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
• 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 available as well
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental heath 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