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Software Engineer, Security (all levels)

Render· Engineering Organization
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Remote$170k - $290kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Security-focused software engineering role building and owning Render's security tooling, detection, and program in collaboration with product and engineering teams. Emphasis on engineering-first security, proactive threat management, and informing product security features.

Responsibilities

  • Build internal tooling to enable secure access to resources (e.g., wrappers, utilities, authentication services, and proxies)
  • Implement detection and monitoring systems that alert the team to high signal vulnerabilities
  • Analyze and assess security issues identified through threat modeling, penetration testing, security scans and vulnerability disclosure
  • Work with developers on sensitive code paths and educate them on secure design patterns
  • Liaise with customers regarding their security and compliance needs, and inform our security program
  • Communicate security risks and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders as part of company-wide planning and prioritization processes
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and best practices and make recommendations for improvements to our security posture
  • Partner with product engineering teams to inform and build thoughtful security features for our customers
  • Continually ensure that our systems have appropriate authentication, authorization, and accounting with low internal overhead

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering or security
  • Experience designing and building secure web applications, tools, and APIs
  • Experience with vulnerability review and analysis
  • Strong incident leadership and diligent response
  • Empathy toward the rest of the team and our customers
  • Strong sense of ownership and ability to make pragmatic decisions about your work

Skills

Required:Full-Stack Security OwnershipThreat modelingSecurity tooling

Benefits

  • 4 weeks of paid vacation
  • 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child
  • 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 as well
  • 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
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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