Backend Engineer
Infrastructure
Updated on 5/17/2023
Locations
Oakland, CA, USA • Remote
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Postgres
REST APIs
Terraform
Kubernetes
Ansible
Datadog
Requirements
- Experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure
- Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging production systems at scale
- Experience building, operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible
Responsibilities
- 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
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog and SignalFx
- Experience hosting PostgreSQL (or similar data stores) at scale
- Security hardening skills, especially in the context of untrusted workloads
Developer cloud application hosting platform
Company Overview
Render's mission is to build a cloud to empower every developer and business to move fast and focus on what matters most to them. Render offers the best of both worlds — incredible ease of use coupled with immense power and scalability to power everything from a simple HTML page to complex applications with hundreds of microservices.
Benefits
- 4 weeks of paid vacation
- 12 sick days
- Parental leave
- Medical coverage
- Mental health support
- 401k
- Long-term disability & life insurance
- Continuous learning benefits
Company Core Values
- High integrity
- Low ego
- Candor with empathy
- Ownership
- Commitment