Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own Render's core compute infrastructure across multiple cloud providers, regions, and data centers
• ▹Design and build capabilities that give users greater performance and flexibility in how their services are built, deployed, and stay available
• ▹Investigate challenging cloud and compute issues across the stack, from the kernel and data plane to the Kubernetes cluster and control plane
• ▹Improve the performance and reliability of the infrastructure through systematic profiling, experimentation, and tuning
• ▹Partner with engineers across the company to build a platform that is stable, predictable, and secure
• ▹Participate in the on-call rotation and help continuously improve incident detection, response, and learning

Requirements

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

Nice to have

• ▹Background in virtualization technologies like Firecracker, gVisor, Kata, or similar
• ▹Experience optimizing the performance of node, pod, and container spin-up times
• ▹Familiarity with eBPF, 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
• ▹Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401(k) plans
• ▹100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage (employee + one dependent)
• ▹FSA and HSA options
• ▹Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, and hobbies
• ▹Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy
• ▹Commuter benefits (Bay Area) and home office stipend 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, used by more than 6 million developers worldwide. In February 2026 the company closed an additional $100M Series C round, bringing total funding to $257M, to accelerate its vision of cloud infrastructure that is both powerful and intuitive.