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Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

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2 months ago
Remote, United States +2 moreSenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$170k - $290k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own Render’s core compute infrastructure across multiple cloud providers, regions, and data centers.
  • Design and build capabilities that improve service performance, flexibility, deployment, and availability during underlying resource failures.
  • Investigate cloud and compute issues across the kernel, data plane, Kubernetes clusters, control plane, and orchestration mechanisms.
  • Improve infrastructure performance and reliability through profiling, experimentation, and tuning.
  • Partner with engineers across the company to build a stable, predictable, and secure platform.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and improve incident detection, response, and learning.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of experience building and operating large-scale platform or compute infrastructure.
  • Deep expertise operating, scaling, and enhancing Kubernetes clusters or similar resource and container orchestration systems.
  • Experience developing custom infrastructure components, scheduling systems, and controllers in Go, Rust, or similar languages.
  • Ability to make broad and deep systems 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 and changes with minimal downtime to user services.
  • Preferred experience with virtualization technologies such as Firecracker, gVisor, Kata, or similar.
  • Preferred experience optimizing node, pod, and container spin-up times.
  • Preferred familiarity with eBPF, Linux kernel internals, and resource management.
  • Preferred experience securing and isolating workloads in multi-tenant execution environments.
  • Applicants requiring visa sponsorship must receive business authorization; the position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship.

Benefits

  • 4 weeks of paid vacation.
  • 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
  • Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
  • Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, with FSAs and HSAs available.
  • Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, therapy, hobbies, and related needs.
  • Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
  • Commuter benefits for Bay Area employees and home office stipends for remote employees.
  • Continuous learning benefits and related support.
  • Generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at the company's discretion.

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About Render

51-200 employees

Render is the fastest path to production for AI agents and full-stack applications. One platform for your entire stack: backend, frontend, Postgres, cron jobs, and everything in between. Deploy on our blazing-fast private network with security built in from day one. Stop stitching together tools. Build it better on Render. Join the Discord: https://render.com/discord