Render
Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure
Remote Infrastructure role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 30, 2026
Eligible countries2 accepted countries
Seniority signalOpen level
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
CanadaUSA
Role overview
Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure
Requirements and responsibilities
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What You'll Do
- 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.
- Design and build capabilities that give users greater performance and flexibility in how their services are built, deployed, perform, and stay available even when underlying resources go down.
- Investigate challenging cloud and compute issues across the stack, from the kernel and data plane to our kubernetes cluster, control plane, and other orchestration mechanisms.
- Improve the performance and reliability of our infrastructure through systematic profiling, experimentation, and tuning.
- Partner with engineers across the company to build a platform that is stable, predictable, and secure.
- Participate in our on-call rotation. Help continuously improve how we detect, respond to, and learn from incidents.
What We're Looking For
- 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.
Nice-to-Haves
- Background in virtualization technologies like Firecracker, gVisor, Kata, or similar.
- Experience optimizing the performance of node, pod, and container spin-up times.
- Familiarity with eBPF, Linux kernel internals, resource management.
- Comfort securing and isolating workloads in multi-tenant execution environments.
Relevant links from the Render Infrastructure Team
- The Namespaces Scaling Trap (video podcast interview) and related article How We Found 7 TiB of Memory Just Sitting Around
- SEV0 SF 2025 | Boundary Cases: Technical and social challenges in cross-system debugging
- Distributing Global State to Serve over 1 Billion Daily Requests
- Breaking down OpenAI's outage: How to avoid a hidden DNS dependency in Kubernetes
- Kubernetes Informers are so easy... to misuse!
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. 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. 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.
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