Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

Remote: United States, San Francisco HQ, Remote: Canada · Remote · Senior

$170,000 – $290,000

Listed on Render’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role owns and evolves Render's compute infrastructure across multiple cloud providers and data centers, designing systems that give users better performance and reliability while scaling rapidly. It suits engineers with deep expertise in Kubernetes, distributed systems, and large-scale platform infrastructure who want to shape a developer-friendly cloud platform.

Our summary, not Render’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

At least 7 years building and operating large-scale platform or compute infrastructure
Deep expertise operating, scaling, and enhancing Kubernetes clusters or similar container orchestration systems
Experience developing in Go, Rust, or similar languages for custom infrastructure components
Strong experience designing, debugging, and operating distributed systems
Experience planning and executing rapid, high-risk upgrades with minimal downtime

Nice to have

Background in virtualization technologies like Firecracker, gVisor, Kata, or similar
Experience optimizing node, pod, and container spin-up times
Familiarity with eBPF and Linux kernel internals
Comfort securing and isolating workloads in multi-tenant execution environments