Staff DX Engineer

The role

You will build tutorials, demo apps, and videos to show developers how to build on Render. You will also develop agent skills, automation, and internal tools while testing new releases.

What you will do

• Build tutorials, demo apps, and videos for developers focusing on AI applications and Render Workflows
• Own Render templates and the render-examples GitHub org
• Build agent skills, automation, and internal tools
• Improve how Render appears in LLM and answer-engine results
• Alpha test new releases end to end and report bugs
• Contribute code to the Render CLI, MCP server, SDKs, and docs
• Shape the content roadmap and quality bar with Product, Engineering, and Marketing
• Set technical direction for DX Engineering's content and tooling

Required qualifications

• 8+ years building developer content, or working as an engineer who teaches, at a developer tools or infrastructure company
• Experience setting technical direction and raising the bar for a team
• Full-stack engineering experience
• Strong backend skills (Node.js/TypeScript, Python, Postgres)
• Comfort with Docker and containers
• Frontend skill to ship sample apps end to end
• Deep, hands-on knowledge of AI agents and the workloads they run
• Experience with the agent stack: MCP servers, agent frameworks, LLM APIs, evals, and durable workflow or background job systems
• Daily fluency with coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor
• Excellent technical writing
• A track record of owning projects end to end with little direction
• Strong intuition for developer tools and a love of well-crafted user experiences

Nice to have

• Used Render before, professionally or on side projects
• Experience with AEO or SEO, or with measuring how content performs in LLM answers
• A public body of work: talks, a YouTube channel, popular open source repos, or a well-read blog
• Experience presenting workshops and technical talks

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.