5 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$204k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own Render's core network infrastructure across multiple data centers and cloud providers
- Design and build customer-facing networking capabilities for service connectivity, communication, and traffic routing
- Investigate complex networking issues across the kernel, data plane, distributed systems, and edge networking
- Drive performance and reliability improvements through profiling 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 six years of experience building and operating large-scale networking or infrastructure systems
- Experience with Kubernetes networking internals, including kube-proxy, CNI plugins, and service routing, or similar container networking technology
- Production experience with Linux networking internals, including routing, netfilter/iptables/nftables, and conntrack
- Experience building and operating large-scale traffic routing systems such as load balancers, ingress systems, or proxies
- Strong experience designing, debugging, and operating distributed systems
- Experience planning and executing high-risk changes with minimal downtime
- Preferred experience with data center or hybrid cloud networking, including BGP, AWS Direct Connect, Arista, or Juniper
- Preferred experience with eBPF or advanced Linux kernel networking
- Preferred experience developing systems in Go or similar languages that interact with low-level operating-system and networking primitives
Benefits
- Equity 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
- 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for the employee and a dependent; FSAs and HSAs available
- Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, and related expenses
- Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy
- Bay Area commuter benefits and home-office stipends for remote employees
- Continuous learning benefits and related support
- The position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at Render's discretion
Tech Stack
About Render
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.