Staff Developer Relations Engineer

Royper Royco LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Render is seeking a Staff Developer Relations Engineer to grow usage and word of mouth among developers building full‑stack and AI applications. You’ll be the technical face on stage, in workshops, at meetups, and within AI ecosystems where our users build.

DX Engineering creates tutorials, sample apps, templates, and a video library; DevRel leads community engagement, talks, and partner collaborations, shaping technical direction and the talks you’ll deliver.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in developer relations, solutions engineering, or software engineering.
• Demonstrated track record on stage: talks at conferences and self-designed workshops.
• Experience setting direction for a developer relations program and measuring impact.
• Hands-on fluency with AI agents and agent tooling; ability to explain production needs.
• Engineering depth to be credible with senior engineers, including multi-service apps and debugging.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure: containers, Docker, networking basics, CI/CD, IaC.

Responsibilities

• Represent Render at conferences, meetups, hackathons, podcasts, and livestreams with talks and demos.
• Design and run hands-on workshops and hackathons from curriculum to setup.
• Define DevRel's technical direction and which communities and events to invest in.
• Collaborate with ecosystem partners on joint workshops and integrations.
• Engage technical communities on GitHub, X, Discord, Reddit, and Hacker News; answer hard questions.
• Turn field feedback into prioritized input for Product and Engineering.

Skills

Developer relations

Public speaking

Program direction

AI agents fluency

Engineering depth

Cloud infrastructure knowledge

Communication skills

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

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 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 is looking for a Staff Developer Relations Engineer to grow usage and word of mouth for Render among developers building full-stack and AI applications. You'll be Render's technical face on stage, in workshops, at meetups, and in the developer and AI ecosystems where our users build.

DX at Render has two halves. DX Engineering builds and maintains Render's tutorials, sample apps, templates, and video library. DevRel takes Render to developers in person and through the communities and partners they trust, then brings what it hears back into the product. You'll set the technical bar and direction for DevRel, and you'll be the person developers and partners go to for a deep, candid answer about running AI workloads on Render.

You’ll build the demos and workshop material behind your own talks. When something you build deserves a long life, DX Engineering turns it into a maintained example or template.

This is a remote role within the US, with the option to work out of our headquarters in San Francisco. Expect regular travel for conferences and events.

What You'll Do

• Represent Render at conferences, meetups, hackathons, podcasts, and livestreams, with talks and live demos on building and running AI agents and full-stack apps.
• Design and run hands‑on workshops and hackathons, from the curriculum to the technical setup behind them.
• Set DevRel's technical direction: pick the communities, ecosystems, and events worth investing in, and define what good looks like for talks, workshops, and demos.
• Be the technical counterpart for ecosystem partners such as AI frameworks, agent tooling, and open source projects: joint workshops, co-hosted events, and the integrations worth building together.
• Go deep in technical communities on GitHub, X, Discord, Reddit, and Hacker News. Answer hard questions, debug real deployments, and show up where Render has a credible voice.
• Run the developer feedback loop. Turn what you hear in the field into clear, prioritized input for Product and Engineering, and follow it through until it ships.
• Help Render's highest‑potential developers and startups go further on the platform through technical deep dives and architecture reviews, and turn them into champions who talk about Render in their own communities.
• Raise the bar for the DevRel team through talk reviews, demo reviews, and your own work.
• Track impact through activation from events and workshops, community engagement, partner‑driven adoption, and the product changes you drove.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years in developer relations, solutions engineering, or software engineering, including at least 3 years in a developer‑facing role at a developer tools, cloud, or infrastructure company.
• A track record on stage: talks at recognized developer conferences, and workshops you designed and ran yourself.
• Experience setting direction for a developer relations program: choosing where to invest, measuring what worked, and changing course.
• Hands‑on fluency with AI agents: tool calling, MCP servers, LLM APIs, and agent frameworks. You can build a working agent app live and explain what it needs to run in production, such as long‑running tasks, sandboxed code execution, and retries. The field is young, so we look at what you've done recently. We don't expect years of experience in it.
• The engineering depth to be credible with senior engineers. You can deploy a multi‑service app, read logs, trace a failed deploy, and find the root cause in front of an audience.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure: containers and Docker, networking basics, CI/CD, environment configuration, and infrastructure as code.
• You use coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor every day and keep up with the agent ecosystem as it changes.
• Examples of developer feedback you turned into product changes: what you heard, the case you made, and what shipped.
• Excellent spoken and written communication. You can hold a room of engineers and explain a complex system clearly.

Nice-to-Haves

• Existing relationships in AI framework, agent tooling, or open source communities.
• An existing developer audience through talks, livestreams, a newsletter, or social.
• Experience starting or growing in‑person developer meetups.
• Experience with durable workflows, background job systems, or sandboxed code execution.
• You've used Render before, professionally or on side projects.

Projects You Might Work On

• A workshop on deploying production agents with Render Workflows, run at a major AI conference and then at our own meetups.
• A hackathon co-hosted with an AI framework partner, including the starter kit and the technical support on the day.
• The talk track for an upcoming launch, delivered by you and the rest of DevRel.
• A recurring field report for Product on where developers get stuck running agents on Render.

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.

• 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 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.