Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own Render's core compute infrastructure across multiple cloud providers, regions, and data centers
• ▹Design and build capabilities giving users greater performance and flexibility in how their services run
• ▹Investigate challenging cloud and compute issues from the kernel and data plane to the Kubernetes control plane
• ▹Improve infrastructure performance and reliability through systematic profiling and tuning
• ▹Partner with engineers across the company to build a stable, predictable, and secure platform
• ▹Participate in the on-call rotation and help improve incident response

Requirements

• ▹At least 7 years of experience building and operating large-scale platform or compute infrastructure
• ▹Deep expertise operating, scaling, and enhancing Kubernetes clusters or similar container orchestration systems
• ▹Experience developing in Go, Rust, or similar languages to build custom infrastructure components such as schedulers and controllers
• ▹Comfort going broad and deep in complex systems, improving performance and efficiency without sacrificing reliability
• ▹Strong experience designing, debugging, and operating distributed systems
• ▹Experience planning and executing rapid, high-risk changes with minimal downtime to user services

Nice to have

• ▹Background in virtualization technologies like Firecracker, gVisor, Kata, or similar
• ▹Experience optimizing node, pod, and container spin-up times
• ▹Familiarity with eBPF and Linux kernel internals and resource management
• ▹Comfort securing and isolating workloads in multi-tenant execution environments

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹4 weeks of paid vacation
• ▹14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents
• ▹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 available
• ▹Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness and mental health
• ▹Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy
• ▹Commuter benefits (Bay Area) and home office stipends for remote employees
• ▹Continuous learning benefits and support

About the company

Render builds the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. The platform is trusted by over 6 million developers worldwide; in February 2026 it raised $100M in Series C financing, bringing total funding to $257M.