Render

Software Engineer, Security

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1 year ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaSenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$193k - $265k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build internal tooling for secure resource access, including wrappers, utilities, authentication services, and proxies.
  • Implement detection and monitoring systems for high-signal vulnerabilities.
  • Analyze security issues identified through threat modeling, penetration testing, security scans, and vulnerability disclosure.
  • Partner with developers on sensitive code paths and educate them on secure design patterns.
  • Work with customers on security and compliance needs and use their feedback to inform the security program.
  • Communicate security risks and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Monitor emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and best practices and recommend improvements.
  • Partner with product engineering teams to build security features for customers.
  • Ensure systems have appropriate authentication, authorization, and accounting with low internal overhead.

Requirements

  • At least six years of professional experience in software engineering or security.
  • Experience designing and building secure web applications, tools, and APIs.
  • Experience with vulnerability review and analysis.
  • Strong incident leadership and diligent response.
  • Empathy toward teammates and customers.
  • Strong ownership and ability to make pragmatic decisions.
  • Detection engineering experience implementing and maintaining a SIEM is a plus.
  • Experience with Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, or Temporal is a plus.
  • Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or PCI compliance frameworks is a plus.
  • Practical expertise exploiting common security vulnerabilities is a plus.
  • Experience securing applications and systems through threat modeling and risk assessments is a plus.
  • Security community participation through research, blogging, presentations, or other contributions is a plus.

Benefits

  • Equity eligibility with early-exercise options and extended exercise windows.
  • Four weeks of paid vacation.
  • Fourteen weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
  • Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401(k) plans.
  • Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, with FSAs and HSAs available.
  • Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, therapy, hobbies, and related expenses.
  • 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.
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About Render

201-500 employees

Render provides a developer-focused cloud platform to deploy and run full‑stack applications, including web services, static sites, Postgres, background workers, and cron jobs. It offers persistent compute with autoscaling, built‑in orchestration, and observability, sold as a usage‑based managed PaaS for startups and software teams. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.

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