Software Engineer, Infrastructure (all levels)
Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications, and is hiring infrastructure engineers at all levels. In this role you own and evolve Render's core systems across multiple data centers and regions, from container scheduling to traffic routing. The focus areas include faster container startup, supporting growing AI workloads, internal load balancing, and large-scale data processing.
Responsibilities
- ▹Own Render's core infrastructure across multiple data centers and regions
- ▹Offer unique capabilities to customers through infrastructure innovation
- ▹Plan and architect for rapidly increasing scale
- ▹Debug issues at all levels of the infrastructure stack
- ▹Improve performance and reliability through increased observability, load testing, and chaos engineering
- ▹Collaborate with engineers to keep the platform stable, predictable, and secure
- ▹Participate in the on-call rotation with the rest of the engineering team
Requirements
- ▹At least 5 years of experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure
- ▹Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging production systems at scale
- ▹Building, operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters or similar resource/container orchestration
- ▹Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible
Nice to have
- ▹Linux kernel and/or container optimization
- ▹Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- ▹Hosting PostgreSQL (or similar data stores) at scale
- ▹Security hardening skills, especially for untrusted workloads
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 and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent
- ▹Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, and hobbies
- ▹Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy
- ▹Commuter benefits in the Bay Area and home office stipends for remote staff
- ▹Continuous learning benefits and related support
About the company
Render is a developer-first modern cloud platform for AI-native, full-stack applications, offering persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability. Trusted by over 6 million developers worldwide; in February 2026 it raised an additional $100M Series C, bringing total funding to $257M.