Software Engineer, Dev Velocity (all levels)
Remote$170k - $290k + equityFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Software Engineer role focused on designing and building internal platform, tooling, and automation to enable Render engineers to move quickly and safely. Improve local development, CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and metrics to measure and improve shipping velocity.
Responsibilities
- Improve speed and reliability of early change feedback (build and dependency tooling, caching, incremental builds, monorepo ergonomics; accelerate CI/CD; fast and trustworthy test suites)
- Design and build tools to support concurrent agent execution (provide fast test feedback inside an agent loop; give agents appropriate context)
- Simplify and establish repeatable patterns (reduce toil through automation; instrument signals and drive actions)
- Build and participate in an on-call rotation for critical systems
Qualifications
- Experience building and operating developer-facing tooling, CI/CD systems, or internal platforms used by engineers
- Experience driving cultural and process changes to improve engineering effectiveness
- Strong software engineering fundamentals; track record of shipping, maintaining, debugging production systems
- Proficiency in Go (or strong willingness to ramp quickly)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform)
- Bias toward measurement: instrument and use data to verify impact
- Empathy for engineers and ability to fix developer pain points in a sustainable way
Skills
Required:GoKubernetesCI/CDInfrastructure as code
Nice to have:Observability / metrics
Benefits
- 4 weeks of paid vacation
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- 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 available
- Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness and mental health
- Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy
- Commuter benefits for Bay Area Renders, 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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