Software Engineer, Dev Velocity (all levels)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Improve the speed and reliability of early change feedback
• ▹Invest in build and dependency tooling, caching, and incremental builds to keep iteration tight as the codebase grows
• ▹Accelerate CI/CD pipelines, cutting build, test, and deploy times
• ▹Make test suites fast and trustworthy through parallelization, smart test selection, and flaky-test detection
• ▹Design and build tools to support concurrent agent execution
• ▹Instrument the engineering org with meaningful signals (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, time to restore)
• ▹Build and participate in an on-call rotation as the team owns critical systems

Requirements

• ▹Experience building and operating developer-facing tooling, CI/CD systems, or internal platforms
• ▹Experience driving cultural and process changes to make engineering teams more effective
• ▹Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping, maintaining, and debugging production systems
• ▹Proficiency in Go, or a strong willingness to ramp quickly as it's the primary language
• ▹Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration
• ▹Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• ▹A bias toward measurement: instrumenting what you build and letting data prove the impact

Nice to have

• ▹Experience improving build systems, test infrastructure, or developer experience at scale (Bazel, Concourse, GitHub workflows)
• ▹Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
• ▹Comfort working close to the metal: Linux, containers, Kubernetes
• ▹Security-minded instincts, especially around supply chain and the path from commit to deploy
• ▹Understanding of where AI is an accelerant versus where human context must come first

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.