Software Engineer, Expansion (all levels)

Webhosting; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Render’s platform empowers developers to build AI-native, full‑stack, multi‑service applications on a modern cloud. By removing friction between speed and reliability, Render helps teams ship faster, scale confidently, and focus on their product rather than infrastructure.

As a Software Engineer, Expansion, you’ll take end‑to‑end ownership of features across the stack, collaborate with design, product and other engineers, and help scale the codebase as Render grows to serve millions of users

Responsibilities

• Build new products and features across the stack.
• Collaborate closely with design, product, other engineers, and cross-functional teams.
• Evolve and mature the Render codebase as the product scales.
• Participate in team planning, roadmaps, and goal setting.
• Help shape team culture and engineering practices as the company grows.
• Participate in on-call responsibilities with the team.

Job description

Software Engineer, Expansion (all levels)

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 ... offers 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.

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.

By 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.

The challenge is in building the right user-facing features and abstractions that make simple application deployments effortless and complex application deployments possible. User experience is our primary focus and drives everything we do. As a product engineer at Render, you will take complete, end-to-end ownership of full stack projects. You should already have experience building products across the stack and have a keen understanding of databases, web frameworks, APIs, and multiple programming languages.

What You’ll Do

Build new products. This team builds the tools that help larger teams/companies manage their apps as they grow.

Collaborate closely with design, product, other engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.

Help evolve and mature the Render codebase and technology as the product scales and increases in complexity over time.

Participate in team planning, roadmapping, and goal-setting.

Help shape team culture and practices as the company scales.

Participate in on-call responsibilities with the rest of your team.

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!