Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native applications. The role involves owning and evolving Render's core network infrastructure while designing customer-facing networking capabilities and investigating complex networking issues to enhance performance and reliability.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Experience with data center or hybrid cloud networking (e.g. BGP, AWS Direct Connect, Arista/Juniper)
- 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
Benefits
- This opportunity is also eligible for equity with early-exercise options and extended exercise windows.
- 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.
Company Overview
Render provides a unified cloud for developers and teams to host all their applications, databases, and websites. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://render.com.