3 months ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaEntry Level / Mid Level / Senior / Staff+
Base Salary
$170k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Improve the speed and reliability of early change feedback.
- Develop build and dependency tooling, caching, incremental builds, and monorepo ergonomics.
- Accelerate CI/CD pipelines while preserving safe and reversible production deployments.
- Improve test speed and trustworthiness through parallelization, smart test selection, flaky-test detection, and better local and preview environments.
- Design and build tools supporting concurrent agent execution and fast agent feedback loops.
- Provide agents with relevant codebase, service ownership, recent-change, and environment context.
- Establish repeatable engineering patterns and reduce toil through automation.
- Instrument engineering performance with metrics such as deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and time to restore, then use the data to drive improvements.
- Build and participate in an on-call rotation for critical systems.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating developer-facing tooling, CI/CD systems, or internal platforms used by engineers.
- Experience driving cultural and process changes that improve engineering effectiveness.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping, maintaining, and debugging production systems.
- Proficiency in Go or strong willingness to ramp quickly; Go is the primary language.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- A measurement-oriented approach to instrumenting systems and evaluating improvements with data.
- Empathy for engineers and an ability to address developer pain points with elegant, sustainable solutions.
- Preferred: experience improving build systems, test infrastructure, or developer experience at meaningful scale.
- Preferred: familiarity with Bazel, Concourse, GitHub workflows, Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
- Preferred: comfort working with Linux, containers, and Kubernetes.
- Preferred: security-minded instincts around software supply chains and the path from commit to deployment.
- Preferred: understanding of effective, context-aware uses of AI in engineering workflows.
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, and hobbies.
- 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 Render's discretion.
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.