Software Engineer, Infrastructure (all levels)

The role

You will own core infrastructure across multiple data centers and regions. You will design and build a cloud platform by planning for scale, debugging infrastructure, and improving performance and reliability.

What you will do

• Own Render's core infrastructure across multiple data centers and regions.
• Help offer unique capabilities to Render customers through infrastructure innovation.
• Plan and architect for rapidly increasing scale.
• Debug issues at all levels in our infrastructure stack.
• Improve the performance and reliability of our infrastructure through increased observability, load testing, and chaos engineering.
• Collaborate with other engineers to help keep our platform stable, predictable, and secure.
• Participate in our on-call rotation, with the rest of the engineering team.

Required qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging production systems at scale.
• Experience building, operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters or similar resource/container orchestration.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible.

Nice to have

• Experience with Linux kernel and/or container optimization
• Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience hosting PostgreSQL (or similar data stores) at scale.
• Security hardening skills, especially in the context of untrusted workloads.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• 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.