Software Engineer, Dev Velocity (all levels)

Render Services, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Remote: United States

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Design and build internal platform tools, automation, and tooling that enable every Render engineer to ship code quickly and safely.
• Improve the speed and reliability of early feedback loops in the development process by optimizing build systems, dependency management, caching, and monorepo ergonomics.
• Accelerate CI/CD pipelines by reducing build, test, and deploy times while maintaining safe, reversible paths to production.
• Enhance test infrastructure through parallelization, smart test selection, flaky-test detection, and creating local/preview environments using the same primitives as customer-facing systems.
• Design and implement tools to support concurrent agent execution, ensuring test feedback is fast enough to operate within an agent’s loop without compounding delays.
• Equip agents with accurate context—including codebase conventions, service ownership, recent changes, and environment state—to increase the likelihood of successful first attempts.
• Simplify and standardize repetitive engineering workflows by automating toil and paving over manual steps that slow down velocity.
• Instrument the engineering organization with meaningful metrics such as deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and time to restore, then translate insights into actionable improvements.
• Build and participate in an on-call rotation to own and maintain critical internal systems that support developer velocity.
• Collaborate across the entire engineering organization to identify friction points in the development lifecycle and remove them measurably.
• Work with Go as the primary language, leveraging strong software engineering fundamentals to ship, maintain, and debug production-grade systems.
• Apply infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform to manage and automate platform resources.
• Operate within Kubernetes or similar container orchestration environments to support scalable, reliable internal tooling.
• Use data-driven approaches to measure the impact of changes, ensuring improvements are validated by observable outcomes rather than assumptions.
• Empathize deeply with engineers, prioritizing the resolution of developer pain points through elegant, sustainable solutions.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous feedback, mutual trust, and respectful debate to improve both individual and team performance.
• Maintain security-minded practices, particularly around supply chain integrity and the end-to-end path from commit to deploy.
• Stay informed on AI’s role in engineering workflows, applying it as an accelerant where appropriate while preserving essential human context.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building and operating developer-facing tooling, CI/CD systems, or internal platforms that other engineers depend on daily.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with a proven track record of shipping, maintaining, and debugging production systems.
• Proficiency in Go or a strong willingness to ramp quickly in Go, Render’s primary language.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• A bias toward measurement: you instrument what you build and use data to validate improvements.

🏖️ Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents, with support for return-to-work planning.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, therapy, and hobbies.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Home office stipend for remote employees.

Skills & Technologies

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub

Linux

Grafana

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About Render Services, Inc.

Render is a unified cloud platform that lets developers deploy and run websites, APIs, background workers, cron jobs and private services through git push or Docker images. It automates build, deploy, scaling, SSL certificates, log aggregation and zero-downtime rollbacks, offering managed PostgreSQL, Redis and persistent block storage. The infrastructure spans global data centers and provides usage-based pricing, eliminating server management and DevOps overhead for startups and enterprises alike.

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