Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure

The role

You will own core network infrastructure across multiple data centers and cloud providers. You will design customer-facing networking capabilities and investigate complex networking issues from the kernel to distributed systems.

What you will do

• Own Render's core network infrastructure across multiple data centers and cloud providers.
• Design and build customer-facing networking capabilities.
• Investigate complex networking issues across the stack.
• Drive performance and reliability improvements through systematic profiling and tuning.
• Partner with engineers to build a stable, predictable, and secure platform.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

Required qualifications

• At least 6 years of experience building and operating large-scale networking or infrastructure systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes networking internals (e.g. kube-proxy, CNI plugins, service routing) or similar container networking technology.
• Experience with Linux networking internals (e.g. routing, netfilter/iptables/nftables, conntrack) in production environments.
• Experience building and operating traffic routing systems (e.g. load balancers, ingress, proxies) at scale.
• Strong experience designing, debugging, and operating distributed systems.
• Experience planning and executing high-risk changes with minimal downtime.

Nice to have

• Experience with eBPF or advanced Linux kernel networking.
• Experience developing systems in Go or similar languages that interact with low-level OS and networking primitives.

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.