{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"0ec4e9b66c698838f09d1db3","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/0ec4e9b66c698838f09d1db3","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/0ec4e9b66c698838f09d1db3","title":"Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure","description":"Location\nRemote: United States; Remote: Canada; San Francisco HQ\nEmployment Type\nFull time\nLocation Type\nRemote\nDepartment\nEngineeringEngineeringInfrastructure TeamNetworking\nCompensation\n$236K – $290K • Offers Equity\nOur openings span more than one career level. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, location, and market demands.\n\nAt Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure.\nUnlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.\nOur platform is trusted by over 6 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $257M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development.\nWe’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you.\nApplying to Render\nWe're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.\nWe especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.\nOur interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.\nAbout the Role\nRender's mission is to eliminate the undifferentiated work that goes into building software products by offering an easy-to-use, powerful cloud platform for developer teams of all sizes.\nWe are scaling rapidly. Our customers have created hundreds of thousands of services on our platform, and the numbers continue to accelerate. Our customers trust us to deliver a secure, reliable and performant cloud — this is our top priority as a company.\nBy joining us at an early stage, you will design and build the cloud platform you've always wanted for yourself, and make decisions that will shape our product and company, directly impacting developers around the globe.\nRender builds and operates our own networking stack end-to-end. We leverage open source and industry-standard technologies, modifying and extending the core components to meet the unique reliability, performance, and scaling demands of our platform.\nWe are looking for engineers with deep specialization in network infrastructure, particularly with experience in edge/ingress networking and Kubernetes networking internals.\nAreas of focus include scaling and evolving our traffic routing and load balancing systems; advancing Kubernetes and Linux networking components to support large-scale, zero-downtime operation; and exploring networking for Render’s next-generation compute platforms.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn Render's core network infrastructure across multiple data centers and cloud providers. Shape how networking evolves as Render rapidly scales.\nDesign and build customer-facing networking capabilities that give users greater flexibility in how their services connect, communicate, and how traffic is routed.\nInvestigate complex networking issues across the stack, from the kernel and data plane to distributed systems and edge networking.\nDrive performance and reliability improvements through systematic profiling and tuning.\nPartner with engineers across the company to build a platform that is stable, predictable, and secure.\nParticipate in our on-call rotation. Help continuously improve how we detect, respond to, and learn from incidents.\nWhat We're Looking For\nAt least 6 years of experience building and operating large-scale networking or infrastructure systems.\nExperience with Kubernetes networking internals (e.g. kube-proxy, CNI plugins, service routing) or similar container networking technology.\nExperience with Linux networking internals (e.g. routing, netfilter/iptables/nftables, conntrack) in production environments.\nExperience building and operating traffic routing systems (e.g. load balancers, ingress, proxies) at scale.\nStrong experience designing, debugging, and operating distributed systems.\nExperience planning and executing high-risk changes with minimal downtime.\nNice-to-haves\nExperience with eBPF or advanced Linux kernel networking.\nExperience developing systems in Go or similar languages that interact with low-level OS and networking primitives.\nRelevant Links from the Render Engineering Team\nThe Namespaces Scaling Trap (video podcast interview) and related article How We Found 7 TiB of Memory Just Sitting Around\nSEV0 SF 2025 | Boundary Cases: Technical and social challenges in cross-system debugging\nDistributing Global State to Serve over 1 Billion Daily Requests\nBreaking down OpenAI's outage: How to avoid a hidden DNS dependency in Kubernetes\nKubernetes Informers are so easy... to misuse!\nIf this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique experience might be just what we need.\nBenefits\n4 weeks of paid vacation.\n14 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.\nLong-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.\n100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs and HSAs are available as well.\nMonthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.\nMonthly cell phone and internet subsidy.\nCommuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.\nContinuous learning benefits & related support.\nThis position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.\nRender is an equal-opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.\nWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.\nWe encourage all who are interested to apply. 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We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.\nWe especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.\nOur interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.\nAbout the Role\nRender's mission is to eliminate the undifferentiated work that goes into building software products by offering an easy-to-use, powerful cloud platform for developer teams of all sizes.\nWe are scaling rapidly. Our customers have created hundreds of thousands of services on our platform, and the numbers continue to accelerate. Our customers trust us to deliver a secure, reliable and performant cloud — this is our top priority as a company.\nBy joining us at an early stage, you will design and build the cloud platform you've always wanted for yourself, and make decisions that will shape our product and company, directly impacting developers around the globe.\nRender builds and operates our own networking stack end-to-end. 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We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.\nLong-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.\n100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs and HSAs are available as well.\nMonthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.\nMonthly cell phone and internet subsidy.\nCommuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.\nContinuous learning benefits & related support.\nThis position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.\nRender is an equal-opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and community to flourish. 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