Software Engineer, Dev Velocity (all levels)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Improve speed and reliability of early change feedback; invest in build and dependency tooling, caching, incremental builds, and monorepo ergonomics
• ▹Accelerate CI/CD pipelines — cutting build, test, and deploy times while keeping the path to production safe and reversible
• ▹Make test suites fast and trustworthy: parallelization, smart test selection, flaky-test detection, and better local/preview environments
• ▹Design and build tools to support concurrent agent execution; make test feedback fast enough to live inside an agent's loop; get agents the right context (codebase conventions, service ownership, recent changes, environment state)
• ▹Simplify and establish repeatable patterns, reducing toil through automation and paving over manual steps
• ▹Instrument the engineering org with meaningful signals (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, time to restore) and turn them into action
• ▹Build and participate in an on-call rotation as the team takes ownership of critical systems

Requirements

• ▹Experience building and operating developer-facing tooling, CI/CD systems, or internal platforms that other engineers depend on every day
• ▹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 — it's Render's primary language)
• ▹Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration
• ▹Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• ▹A bias toward measurement: instruments what they build and lets data show whether things actually got faster

Nice to have

• ▹Experience improving build systems, test infrastructure, or developer experience at meaningful scale — Bazel, Concourse, and GitHub workflows are old friends
• ▹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
• ▹A balanced view of where AI acts as an accelerant and where human context must come first

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.