Software Engineer, Dev Velocity (all levels)

At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure. Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users. Our platform is trusted by over 6 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $257M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development. We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you. APPLYING TO RENDER We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team. We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed. Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Software Engineer on Developer Velocity, you'll design and build the internal platform, tooling, and automation that lets every Render engineer move quickly and safely. You'll drive changes in our local development environments, CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and the metrics we use to understand and improve how we ship. You'll work across the entire engineering org, identify where friction lives, and remove it, measurably. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Improve speed and reliability of early change feedback - Invest in build and dependency tooling, caching, incremental builds, and monorepo ergonomics, to keep iteration tight as the codebase grows.

• Accelerate our CI/CD pipelines - cutting build, test, and deploy times while keeping the path to production safe and reversible.
• Make our test suites fast and trustworthy: parallelization, smart test selection, flaky-test detection, and better local/preview environments built on the same primitives our customers use.
• Design and build tools to support concurrent agent execution - Make test feedback fast enough to live inside an agent's loop, where slow or flaky runs compound across every attempt.
• Get agents the right context (codebase conventions, service ownership, recent changes, environment state) so their first attempt lands closer to correct.
• Simplify and establish repeatable patterns - Reduce toil through automation, paving over repetitive workflows and manual steps wherever they slow people down.
• Instrument the engineering org with meaningful signals (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, time to restore) and turn them into action.
• Build and participate in an on-call rotation as the team takes ownership of critical systems.

• Experience driving cultural and process changes to make engineering teams more effective.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping, maintaining, and debugging production systems.
• Proficiency in Go (or a strong willingness to ramp quickly, it's our primary language).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (yup, Terraform).
• A bias toward measurement: you instrument what you build and let data tell you whether you actually made things faster.
• You empathize deeply with engineers, fixing developer pain points in an elegant and sustainable manner is something that resonates deeply with you.

• Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Comfort working close to the metal - Linux, containers, kubernetes - you get your hands very dirty.
• Security-minded instincts, especially around supply chain and the path from commit to deploy.
• Understanding that the question isn't "AI pilled vs AI skeptic", but rather where to use it as an accelerant, and where human context must come first.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
• 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.

• 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, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support. This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship.

• Showcase cloud‑native, multi‑service projects: In your résumé and portfolio, include at least one end‑to‑end application you built, deployed, and scaled on a platform like Render, AWS, or GCP. Highlight how you used Docker containers, dynamic autoscaling, and persistent compute (e.g., a micro‑service architecture with a frontend, API, and background workers). Provide a live link or a short video that demonstrates the app’s auto‑scale behavior and observability dashboards.
• Demonstrate expertise with Render‑relevant tooling: Emphasize hands‑on experience with Go or Rust for backend services, Python for data/LLM pipelines, and infrastructure‑as‑code tools (Terraform, Docker Compose, or Render’s own YAML manifests). If you have written custom observability hooks (Prometheus metrics, Grafana alerts) or integrated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) that automatically deploy to Render, make those details prominent.
• Prepare for system‑design interviews focused on developer velocity: Expect scenarios like “design a SaaS platform that can launch a new customer’s environment in under 2 minutes with zero‑downtime scaling.” Practice explaining trade‑offs between persistent compute vs. serverless, how you’d implement auto‑scaling policies, and how you’d expose simple developer‑friendly APIs. Use Render’s terminology (persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built‑in orchestration) in your answers.
• Leverage open‑source contributions and community engagement: If you’ve contributed to open‑source projects related to cloud orchestration, LLM tooling, or observability, link to those PRs. Render values “developer‑first” culture, so participation in forums (e.g., Render’s community Slack, dev‑ops Discords) or writing blog posts about simplifying infra for developers can set you apart.
• Negotiate with data specific to remote US engineers at Render: Research recent Glassdoor/Levels.fyi salary bands for “Software Engineer – Dev Velocity” at comparable remote‑first cloud companies (e.g., Fly.io, Vercel). Prepare a compensation matrix that includes base, equity, and remote‑work stipend. During negotiation, reference your measurable impact (e.g., reduced deployment time by 40 % or saved $X in infra costs) to justify a higher tier within the band.