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title: 'Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure at Render'
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# Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure at Render 

- **Company:** Render 
- **Location:** :, United States
- **Compensation:** $236k–$290k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/render/88cb74a4-bc28-40b1-b792-d3041e3e17d3/application

**Skills:** Kubernetes networking internals, Linux networking, Traffic routing systems, Load balancers, Ingress, Proxies, Distributed systems, Go, BGP, AWS Direct Connect, Arista, Juniper, eBPF, Linux kernel networking

> Design and build Render's core network infrastructure, including traffic routing, load balancing, and Kubernetes networking internals. Own the evolution of the platform's networking stack across multiple data centers and cloud providers to ensure high reliability and performance.

## Job description

At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure. Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users. Our platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $260M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development. We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you.

Applying to Render We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team. We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed. Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.

## About the Role

Render's mission is to eliminate the undifferentiated work that goes into building software products by offering an easy-to-use, powerful cloud platform for developer teams of all sizes. We are scaling rapidly. Our customers have created hundreds of thousands of services on our platform, and the numbers continue to accelerate. Our customers trust us to deliver a secure, reliable and performant cloud — this is our top priority as a company. By joining us at an early stage, you will design and build the cloud platform you've always wanted for yourself, and make decisions that will shape our product and company, directly impacting developers around the globe. Render builds and operates our own networking stack end-to-end. We leverage open source and industry-standard technologies, modifying and extending the core components to meet the unique reliability, performance, and scaling demands of our platform. We are looking for engineers with deep specialization in network infrastructure, particularly with experience in edge/ingress networking and Kubernetes networking internals. Areas of focus include scaling and evolving our traffic routing and load balancing systems; advancing Kubernetes and Linux networking components to support large-scale, zero-downtime operation; and exploring networking for Render’s next-generation compute platforms.

## What You'll Do

- Own Render's core network infrastructure across multiple data centers and cloud providers. Shape how networking evolves as Render rapidly scales.
- Design and build customer-facing networking capabilities that give users greater flexibility in how their services connect, communicate, and how traffic is routed.
- Investigate complex networking issues across the stack, from the kernel and data plane to distributed systems and edge networking.
- Drive performance and reliability improvements through systematic profiling and tuning.
- Partner with engineers across the company to build a platform that is stable, predictable, and secure.
- Participate in our on-call rotation. Help continuously improve how we detect, respond to, and learn from incidents.

## What We're Looking For

- At least 6 years of experience building and operating large-scale networking or infrastructure systems.
- Experience with Kubernetes networking internals (e.g. kube-proxy, CNI plugins, service routing) or similar container networking technology.
- Experience with Linux networking internals (e.g. routing, netfilter/iptables/nftables, conntrack) in production environments.
- Experience building and operating traffic routing systems (e.g. load balancers, ingress, proxies) at scale.
- Strong experience designing, debugging, and operating distributed systems.
- Experience planning and executing high-risk changes with minimal downtime.

Nice-to-haves

- Experience with eBPF or advanced Linux kernel networking.
- Experience developing systems in Go or similar languages that interact with low-level OS and networking primitives.

Relevant Links from the Render Engineering Team

- [The Namespaces Scaling Trap](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCKhoYsNsmE) (video podcast interview) and related article [How We Found 7 TiB of Memory Just Sitting Around](https://render.com/blog/how-we-found-7-tib-of-memory-just-sitting-around)
- [SEV0 SF 2025 | Boundary Cases: Technical and social challenges in cross-system debugging](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4hAyzmBNXk)
- [Distributing Global State to Serve over 1 Billion Daily Requests](https://render.com/blog/distributing-global-state-to-serve-over-1-billion-daily-requests)
- [Breaking down OpenAI's outage: How to avoid a hidden DNS dependency in Kubernetes](https://render.com/blog/a-hidden-dns-dependency-in-kubernetes)
- [Kubernetes Informers are so easy... to misuse!](https://render.com/blog/kubernetes-informers)

If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique experience might be just what we need.

## Benefits

- 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
- Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
- 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs and HSAs are available as well.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
- Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
- Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
- Continuous learning benefits & related support.

This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization. Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. We encourage all who are interested to apply. We can't wait to hear from you! [Render — CCPA Applicant Privacy Notice](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wKr9IejoT5McFrs9I2mahQnf6AFwb3z2/view) [Render — GDPR Applicant Privacy Notice](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_8jtyXQ1HdRdTdQn9sZ7n-R-zAGBmsFa/view)

## About Render 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Render is a cloud infrastructure platform that enables developers to deploy, scale, and manage full-stack applications and AI agents from a single, unified interface.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $80M raised in Jan 2025)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Anurag Goel

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Cloud infrastructure, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), DevOps, Software Development.
- Target customers: Individual developers, startups, and engineering teams (B2B, with a strong focus on developer experience). Over 6 million builders trust the platform.
- Mission or purpose statement: "We build accessible and reliable cloud infrastructure. Render helps software teams ship products fast and at any scale."

## Products & Services
- **Render Cloud Platform**: A unified PaaS offering including web services, static sites, background jobs, cron jobs, and full-stack preview environments. Key features include native language runtimes, load-based autoscaling, integrated monitoring and logging, and managed compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR).
- **Managed Postgres Databases**: Fully managed PostgreSQL with point-in-time recovery, read replicas, and high availability.
- **Key Value Store (Redis-compatible)**: Low-latency in-memory storage for caching and job queues.
- **Workflows (Durable Execution)**: Long-running, retryable workflows as code for background processes and AI agent logic.
- **Edge Caching & Global CDN**: Caching powered by Render’s global CDN and free, fully-managed TLS certificates.
- **Private Networking & Security**: Built-in DDoS protection, encryption at rest, role-based access control, and private services that keep traffic off the public internet.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company). Total funding of $156.8M as of January 2025.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding: $156.8M; Annual revenue: $8.0M (LinkedIn estimate).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series C led by Georgian (Jan 2025). Previous rounds led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Series B), Addition (Series A), and General Catalyst (Seed) [render.com](https://render.com/about).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 110 employees (+50.8% year-over-year), operating across 7 countries (US, Canada, UK, Australia, Georgia, France, New Zealand). Active job postings increased 216.7% year-over-year [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/renderco). Loyal user base of “over 6 million builders.”

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Developer Experience**: Combines hosting, databases, cron jobs, workflows, and more into one platform, eliminating the need to stitch together multiple tools.
- **Security & Compliance by Default**: SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and GDPR built in without extra configuration.
- **Automated Infrastructure**: Automatic deploys from Git, ephemeral preview environments per pull request, and load-based autoscaling that handles 100x traffic bursts.
- **Simplicity for Scale**: Designed to take a project from a “hundred-line prototype” to hundreds of services, while maintaining a low learning curve.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Agent Infrastructure**: The homepage and recent product additions (Workflows, Key Value Store) emphasize supporting AI agents and durable execution.
- **Enterprise Readiness**: Continued investment in compliance (HIPAA recently launched) and role-based access controls.
- **Platform Expansion**: Adding object storage and deeper infrastructure-as-code support (YAML blueprints) to attract larger teams and more complex use cases.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Collaborative, long-term-oriented, quality-focused. Operating principles include “build together,” “take the long view,” and “raise the quality bar.” The team emphasizes kindness and ambition.
- **Remote-First with HQ Option**: Distributed team across the US and Canada; San Francisco SoMa office available with catered lunches and stocked kitchen. Monthly commute stipend (office) and home office stipend (remote).
- **Generous Benefits**:
  - 4 weeks paid vacation + week between Christmas and New Year’s off.
  - 14 weeks paid parental leave for all parents.
  - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents.
  - Monthly lifestyle stipend (wellness, hobbies, etc.) and cell phone/internet subsidy.
  - Traditional or Roth 401(k) with long-term disability and life insurance.
  - Competitive cash + equity with extended exercise windows.
  - Continuous learning benefits.
- **Engineering Excellence**: Engineers work on platform, infrastructure, security, billing, product, and growth. Teams have high ownership and impact. Alumni from Stripe, HashiCorp, Okta, and other top tech companies.

## Sources
1. [render.com/about](https://render.com/about)
2. [render.com/careers](https://render.com/careers)
3. [render.com/jobs](https://render.com/jobs)
4. [linkedin.com/company/renderco](https://www.linkedin.com/company/renderco)
5. [render.com](https://render.com)

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