# Software Engineer, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Render](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/render)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $170k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Linux Kernel, Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Postgres, Chaos Engineering
**Posted:** 2025-10-13

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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