Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure
Render · Remote · Remote: United States · San Francisco HQ · Remote: Canada ·
COMPENSATION
$170k – $290k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote
- Kubernetes & Go/Rust
- 7+ years experience
- No new visa sponsorship
- 14 weeks parental leave
Join Render's infrastructure team to design and operate the cloud platform that powers modern AI and full-stack applications. You will work on scaling Kubernetes clusters, optimizing performance, and expanding into bare metal and micro VM orchestration. The team focuses on eliminating infrastructure complexity for developers while maintaining high reliability and security.
What you'll do
- Own core compute infrastructure across multiple cloud providers and regions
- Design capabilities for service performance, flexibility, and availability
- Investigate complex issues from kernel level to control plane
- Improve infrastructure reliability through profiling and tuning
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure platform stability and security
- Participate in on-call rotation and incident response improvements
What you'll need
- At least 7 years building large-scale platform or compute infrastructure
- Deep expertise in operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, or similar languages for infrastructure components
- Strong experience designing and debugging distributed systems
- Ability to make tradeoffs for performance without sacrificing reliability
- Experience executing high-risk upgrades with minimal downtime
Nice to have
- Background in virtualization technologies like Firecracker or gVisor
- Experience optimizing node, pod, and container spin-up times
- Familiarity with eBPF and Linux kernel internals
- Comfort securing workloads in multi-tenant environments
Stack
- Kubernetes
- Go
- Rust
- Linux
- eBPF
- Firecracker
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- On-call rotation required
- No new visa sponsorship available
- Existing visa transfers considered at discretion
What you get
- 4 weeks of paid vacation
- 14 weeks fully paid parental leave
- 100% employer-paid medical coverage
- 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage
- Monthly lifestyle and internet stipends
- Long-term disability and life insurance
- 401K plans available
- Continuous learning support