Staff Developer Relations Engineer

The role

You will grow usage and word of mouth for Render among developers building full-stack and AI applications. You will represent the company at conferences, workshops, and in technical communities while providing feedback to Product and Engineering.

What you will do

• Represent Render at conferences, meetups, hackathons, podcasts, and livestreams.
• Design and run hands-on workshops and hackathons.
• Set DevRel's technical direction and investment areas.
• Act as the technical counterpart for ecosystem partners.
• Engage in technical communities on GitHub, X, Discord, Reddit, and Hacker News.
• Run the developer feedback loop to provide input for Product and Engineering.
• Provide technical deep dives and architecture reviews for high-potential developers.
• Raise the bar for the DevRel team through reviews.
• Track impact through activation, engagement, and product changes.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in developer relations, solutions engineering, or software engineering.
• At least 3 years in a developer-facing role at a developer tools, cloud, or infrastructure company.
• Track record of talks at recognized developer conferences and running designed workshops.
• Experience setting direction for a developer relations program.
• Hands-on fluency with AI agents including tool calling, MCP servers, LLM APIs, and agent frameworks.
• Engineering depth to deploy multi-service apps, read logs, and trace failed deploys.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure including containers, Docker, networking, CI/CD, environment configuration, and infrastructure as code.
• Daily use of coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
• Examples of developer feedback turned into product changes.
• Excellent spoken and written communication.

Nice to have

• Existing relationships in AI framework, agent tooling, or open source communities.
• An existing developer audience through talks, livestreams, a newsletter, or social.
• Experience starting or growing in-person developer meetups.
• Experience with durable workflows, background job systems, or sandboxed code execution.
• Used Render before, professionally or on side projects.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• 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, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area.
• Home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.

Before you apply

• Generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship.
• At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers.

About the company

Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. The platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide.