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Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Builds and scales cloud infrastructure for Render's developer platform, focusing on container orchestration, networking, storage, and AI workloads. Requires 5+ years experience with Kubernetes, IaC tools like Terraform/Pulumi/Ansible, and production systems at scale.

170k – 290k/yr
Remote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Own Render's core infrastructure across multiple data centers and regions.
  • Help offer unique capabilities to Render customers through infrastructure innovation.
  • Plan and architect for rapidly increasing scale.
  • Debug issues at all levels in our infrastructure stack.
  • Improve the performance and reliability of our infrastructure through increased observability, load testing, and chaos engineering.
  • Collaborate with other engineers to help keep our platform stable, predictable, and secure.
  • Participate in our on-call rotation, with the rest of the engineering team.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 5 years of experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging production systems at scale.
  • Experience building, operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters or similar resource/container orchestration.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with Linux kernel and/or container optimization
  • Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Experience hosting PostgreSQL (or similar data stores) at scale.
  • Security hardening skills, especially in the context of untrusted workloads.

Skills

KubernetesTerraformPulumiAnsibleLinux KernelDatadogGrafanaOpenTelemetryPostgresChaos Engineering

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