Software Engineer, Agent Auth Experience

Webhosting; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers. We’re seeking a software engineer with a strong identity and security focus to design and ship authentication and authorization systems, including SSO, SCIM provisioning, and fine-grained permissions.

You’ll own the security experience across the stack and partner with product, design, security, and other teams to ensure observable, safe rollouts and strong access controls.

Qualifications

• Experience designing authentication and authorization systems for users, agents, and services.
• Proven ability to evolve authorization models with clear permissions and scopes.
• Experience building secure, scalable cloud platform components.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship authentication and authorization systems, including SSO, SCIM provisioning, and credential scoping.
• Evolve authorization models toward clear permissions for applications, environments, and resources.
• Own the security experience across the stack, from UI to APIs and data models.

Skills

Authentication systems

Authorization systems

SSO

RBAC

SCIM provisioning

Audit logging

Security design

Tools

OIDC/OAuth

JWT

SCIM

Job description

Software Engineer, Agent Auth Experience

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 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.

Our 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.

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.

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 with a strong identity and security focus to join our Expansion team. You’ll help build the authentication, authorization, and access-management primitives that Render’s customers depend on including SSO, RBAC, audit logging, scoped credentials and SCIM provisioning.

This is not a security operations or compliance role. You’ll own changes across Render’s platform and think carefully about how to make security features feel built in, not bolted on.

What You’ll Do

Design and ship authentication and authorization systems for users, agents, and services including credential scoping, SSO, SCIM provisioning and fine-grained permission models.

Evolve Render’s authorization model toward clear permissions and scopes for applications, environments, projects, and other platform resources.

Own the security experience across the stack, from the interfaces used to manage features through to the APIs, data models and systems behind them.

Build the controls and audit trails customers use to define, enforce and understand how people, services and agents act within their systems.

Design shared auth APIs and primitives, then work closely with Product, Design, Security, and other Render teams to drive adoption adoption.

Operate authentication and authorization systems that customers and other teams depend on, including observability, safe rollouts, incident response, and on-call.

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:

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.

This 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.

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.

We encourage all who are interested to apply. We can’t wait to hear from you!