Software Engineer, Agent Access & Governance

The role

You will design and ship customer-facing security and governance products. You will build platform capabilities for developers, teams, services, and AI agents to securely access and operate on Render.

What you will do

• Design and ship customer-facing security and governance products.
• Own the experience end to end from interfaces and APIs to backend systems.
• Build foundational platform capabilities for secure access and operation.
• Tackle engineering problems involving distributed systems, authorization, scalability, and reliability.
• Partner with Product, Design, and other engineering teams.
• Evolve and operate critical platform systems.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience shipping and operating production systems.
• Experience building and shipping customer-facing platform products.
• Strong technical fundamentals and experience designing reliable, scalable systems.
• A product-minded approach to engineering.
• A track record of driving ambiguous projects from concept to production.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, JWTs or other authentication methods.
• Experience with multi-tenant authorization models such as RBAC, ABAC, or ReBAC.
• Experience with workload identity, short-lived credentials, secrets management, privileged access, or security controls.
• Experience building developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, identity product or SaaS products.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
• Contributions to open-source auth/security tooling.

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 are 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

• This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship.
• At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers.
• Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.

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.