# Valkey Product Engineer

**Company:** [Render](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/render)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $204k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Go, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, Temporal, key/value datastore, Distributed Systems
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> Product Engineer owning end-to-end development and operations for Render's scalable Key/Value (Valkey) datastore platform. Requires 6+ years shipping software, experience operating KV stores at scale, and comfort with distributed systems.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Operate and maintain the Render KV fleet.
- Collaborate closely with design, product, other engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Help evolve and mature the Render KV product as it scales and increases in complexity over time.
- Participate in team planning, roadmapping, and goal-setting.
- Help shape team culture and practices as the company scales.
- Help evolve the KV product with new capabilities.
- Participate in on-call responsibilities with the rest of your team.

## What We're Looking For
- 6+ years of professional experience shipping software. Bonus points if you’ve excelled at a small, high-growth startup.
- Experience collaborating with product and design stakeholders.
- Strong sense of ownership and ability to make pragmatic decisions about your work.
- Comfort with working in a distributed system.
- Experience operating a KV datastore at scale.
- Familiarity with modern tooling for software build and deploy processes.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience wearing multiple hats and working across the stack, both collaboratively and independently.
- Strong understanding of web frameworks, APIs, and databases, and experience working with multiple programming languages.
- Familiarity building for product-driven growth and modern enterprise audiences.
- Experience with any of the technologies the Render product runs on: Go, Typescript, React, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, Temporal.

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