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Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

Render· Engineering Organization
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Remote$170k - $290kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers. This role focuses on owning and scaling Render’s core compute infrastructure across multiple clouds, regions, and data centers, with emphasis on Kubernetes, container orchestration, micro VMs, and large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own Render's core compute infrastructure across multiple cloud providers, regions, and data centers. You'll shape how we evolve our compute platform as we rapidly scale.

Qualifications

  • At least 7 years of experience building and operating large-scale platform or compute infrastructure.
  • Deep expertise in operating, scaling, and enhancing Kubernetes clusters or similar resource/container orchestration system.
  • Experience developing in Go, Rust, or similar languages to develop custom infrastructure components, scheduling, controllers, that apply business logic to resource management.
  • Comfort going broad and deep in a complex systems, making tradeoffs to improve performance and efficiency without sacrificing reliability.
  • Strong experience designing, debugging, and operating distributed systems.
  • Experience planning and executing rapid, high-risk upgrades, changes with minimal downtime to user services.

Skills

Required:Kubernetes experienceGo or RustDistributed systems

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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