Software Engineer, Agent Access & Governance

Render; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks of paid vacation

Parental leave 14 weeks

401K plans

Medical coverage 100% employer-paid

Dental and vision coverage 99% for you

Job summary

Render is hiring a software engineer for the Access & Governance team to design and ship security and governance features across the platform. You will own customer-facing experiences, APIs, and backend systems, enabling secure access for developers, teams, and AI agents.

This product-focused role emphasizes security, usability, and scalable engineering. You will collaborate with Product and Design, tackle complex security challenges, and help evolve platform systems with high standards for

Qualifications

• Experience shipping customer-facing platform products with strong UX and APIs.
• Led end-to-end product ownership from concept to production.
• Strong fundamentals in designing reliable, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship customer-facing security and governance products end-to-end.
• Build platform capabilities for secure access and governance across Render.
• Tackle distributed systems, authorization, scalability, and reliability challenges.
• Collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering to translate customer needs into product experiences.
• Operate critical platform systems with emphasis on correctness and observability.

Skills

Platform security

Product ownership

APIs design

Distributed systems

Security tooling

Job description

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.

Unlike complex hyperscalers or, in the short-term, fleeting 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.

Our platform is trusted by over 7 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 $260M, 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

Render'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.

We're looking for a software engineer to join our Access & Governance team and help build the next generation of security and governance experiences on Render. As AI agents become more prevalent and organizations scale on Render, you'll help shape how customers securely manage access, protect their applications, and maintain visibility and control over their infrastructure.

This is a product-focused engineering role where you'll solve complex platform challenges while building intuitive, customer-facing experiences that make security simple and accessible to developers.

What You'll Do

• Design and ship customer-facing security and governance products, owning the experience end to end, from intuitive interfaces and APIs to the underlying backend systems.
• Build foundational platform capabilities that help developers, teams, services, and AI agents securely access and operate on Render.
• Tackle challenging engineering problems involving distributed systems, authorization, scalability, and reliability while keeping the customer experience simple.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to translate complex customer needs into elegant, impactful product experiences.
• Help evolve and operate critical platform systems, ensuring high standards for correctness, performance, observability, and safe rollouts.

What We're Looking For

• 6+ years of experience shipping and operating production systems.
• Experience building and shipping customer-facing platform products, with a strong appreciation for intuitive UX, well-designed APIs, and end-to-end product ownership.
• Strong technical fundamentals and experience designing reliable, scalable systems, including navigating complex APIs, data models, and architectural tradeoffs.
• A product-minded approach to engineering, with the ability to balance technical complexity, customer experience, and business impact.
• A track record of driving ambiguous projects from concept to production while collaborating effectively with Product, Design, and Engineering.

We care more about the systems you've built and the decisions you made than whether your last role had a "security" title.

Nice-to-haves:

• Hands-on experience with OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, JWTs or other authentication methods.
• Experience with multi-tenant authorization models such as RBAC, ABAC, or ReBAC, including policy engines or fine-grained authorization systems.
• Experience with workload identity, short-lived credentials, secrets management, privileged access, or security controls for services and agents.
• Experience building developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, identity product or SaaS products where APIs and backwards compatibility matter.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 and an ability to turn those requirements into security improvements for all customers.
• Contributions to open-source auth/security tooling.

If 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.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 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.
• 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 are available as well.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.

This position is generally not eligible for new visasponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.

Render 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.

We 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.