Software Engineer, Security (all levels)

Render; Canada; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity with early-exercise options

4 weeks of paid vacation

14 weeks of paid parental leave

100% employer-paid medical coverage

Monthly lifestyle stipend

Continuous learning benefits

Job summary

A leading cloud platform company is seeking a talented individual for a full-stack security role. In this position, you will own the security lifecycle, implement monitoring systems, and directly impact security measures. The ideal candidate should have over 6 years of experience in software engineering or security and a strong understanding of web application security. This role also offers comprehensive benefits including paid vacation and equity options.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering or security.
• Experience designing and building secure web applications, tools, and APIs.
• Strong incident leadership and diligent response.

Responsibilities

• Build internal tooling for secure access to resources.
• Implement detection and monitoring systems.
• Analyze security issues identified through threat modeling and testing.
• Work with developers on secure design patterns.

Skills

Incident leadership

Vulnerability analysis

Secure web application design

Strong ownership

Empathy toward team and customers

Tools

SIEM

Kubernetes

Go

Typescript

Postgres

Terraform

Temporal

Job description

About Render

At 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.

Our platform is trusted by over 3 million developers worldwide. In January 2025, we raised $80M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $157M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development.

We’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.

Applying to Render

We’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.

We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.

Our 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.

About The Role

The Render Security team is a small, dedicated team of engineers that runs all things security at Render.

• Full-Stack Security Ownership - We don\'t just monitor; we build. From custom security tooling to comprehensive threat assessment, we own the entire security lifecycle at Render.
• Engineering-First Approach - We are a team of engineers that understand security deeply, we create solutions that integrate seamlessly with development workflows rather than creating friction.
• Proactive - We stay ahead of threats through continuous assessment, automated monitoring, and rapid response.

By joining Render at an early stage, you will be directly involved with building out foundational security for Render and make decisions that will shape our product and company, directly impacting developers around the globe.

You Will

• Build internal tooling to enable secure access to resources (e.g., wrappers, utilities, authentication services, and proxies).
• Implement detection and monitoring systems that alert the team to high signal vulnerabilities.
• Analyze and assess security issues identified through threat modeling, penetration testing, security scans and vulnerability disclosure.
• Work with developers on sensitive code paths and educate them on secure design patterns.
• Liaise with customers regarding their security and compliance needs, and in return, inform our security program.
• Communicate security risks and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders as part of company-wide planning and prioritization processes.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and best practices and make recommendations for improvements to our security posture.
• Partner with product engineering teams to inform and build thoughtful security features for our customers.
• Continually ensure that our systems have appropriate authentication, authorization, and accounting with low internal overhead.

We\'re Looking For

• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering or security.
• Experience designing and building secure web applications, tools, and APIs.
• Experience with vulnerability review and analysis.
• Strong incident leadership and diligent response.
• Empathy toward the rest of the team and our customers.
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to make pragmatic decisions about your work.

Nice-to-haves

• Detection engineering experience through implementation and maintenance of a SIEM.
• Experience with any of the technologies the Render product runs on: Go, Typescript, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, Temporal.
• Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA or PCI.
• Proven expertise in exploiting common security vulnerabilities, demonstrating practical experience in identifying and leveraging vulnerabilities to assess security posture.
• Experience securing applications and systems through threat modelling and risk assessments.
• Active participation and contributions to the security community through public research, blogging, presentations, and other means.

Benefits

• This opportunity is also eligible for equity with early-exercise options and extended exercise windows.
• 4 weeks of paid vacation, available from day one.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newborn, adopted, or fostered child. Return-to-work plans are supported.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs and HSAs available.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Bay Area Render employees, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits and related support.

Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, disability, medical condition, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, marital status, height or weight.

We will ensure reasonable accommodations during the application or interview process. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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