Software Engineer, Dev Velocity (all levels)

The role

You will design and build internal platforms, tooling, and automation to improve engineering velocity. You will work on CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and developer environments to reduce friction across the engineering organization.

What you will do

• Improve speed and reliability of early change feedback
• Invest in build and dependency tooling, caching, incremental builds, and monorepo ergonomics
• Accelerate CI/CD pipelines
• Make test suites fast and trustworthy through parallelization and smart test selection
• Design and build tools to support concurrent agent execution
• Make test feedback fast enough to live inside an agent's loop
• Get agents the right context
• Simplify and establish repeatable patterns
• Reduce toil through automation
• Instrument the engineering org with meaningful signals

Required qualifications

• Experience building and operating developer-facing tooling, CI/CD systems, or internal platforms
• Experience driving cultural and process changes to make engineering teams more effective
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Track record of shipping, maintaining, and debugging production systems
• Proficiency in Go or a strong willingness to ramp quickly
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (yup, Terraform)
• A bias toward measurement

Nice to have

• Experience improving build systems, test infrastructure, or developer experience at meaningful scale (Bazel, Concourse, and GitHub workflows)
• Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
• Comfort working close to the metal (Linux, containers, kubernetes)
• Security-minded instincts
• Understanding of where to use AI as an accelerant

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Long-term disability
• Life insurance
• 401K plans
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage
• 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage
• 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

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.