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
Most infrastructure engineers never get to build a cloud from the metal up. At Render, you will. Developers and businesses around the world run their apps on Render, and we are building our own bare metal footprint to give them better performance and economics. You'll help take our first colocation site from an empty cage to production workloads, then scale that foundation as we expand our physical presence to thousands of hosts over the coming years.
You'll join a small, experienced team with real ownership. You'll partner closely with network engineering and our Kubernetes platform team, and the decisions you make now will become the template for every site that follows.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Take our first colocation site from empty cage to production workloads, then scale what you build as we grow to more sites and thousands of hosts
Design how servers go from the loading dock to production with minimal human touch: netboot, imaging, BMC-driven discovery, and host identity
Partner with network engineering on what the fleet needs from the network, from out-of-band management to production connectivity
Build the interface our Kubernetes platform team uses to request capacity, see host health, and coordinate maintenance, so consuming bare metal feels as easy as consuming cloud
Own the fleet's source of truth for hardware, software, and the physical environment
Automate the full server lifecycle, from burn-in and acceptance testing through remediation, staged firmware rollout, and RMA
Build automation like a production system, with guardrails on destructive actions and designs that survive site-level failure
Shape the technical and operational direction of our bare metal platform, from build-vs-buy decisions to how we operate thousands of hosts, and help hire the team that runs it
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Hands-on experience building and operating automation for bare metal fleets in datacenters or colocation
Both sides of the work: time with physical hardware and colo providers, and modern, software-driven fleet management
Strong Go or Python, and experience designing systems with reconciliation loops and idempotent, failure-tolerant actions
Depth below the abstraction: you know what your tools are doing under the hood and can debug them when they fail
Experience operating through real failures, such as bad hardware batches, flapping BMCs, or a rollout you had to halt
Deep Linux knowledge and solid networking fundamentals (DHCP, PXE, DNS, BGP)
Working knowledge of Kubernetes, enough to design the interface between the fleet and the clusters that run on it
Clear communication, comfort with ambiguity, and the willingness to push back on a plan when something doesn't add up
NICE-TO-HAVES
Operating bare metal fleets at a scale of thousands of hosts
Experience on a bare metal or datacenter build-out from its early days
Running a hybrid environment, or moving workloads between public cloud and owned hardware
DCIM/IPAM tools such as NetBox or Nautobot, or provisioning stacks such as Ironic/Metal3, Tinkerbell, or MAAS
Building reconcilers or state machines for physical infrastructure
Hardware depth: component diagnostics, burn-in tooling, firmware, or Redfish and IPMI at fleet scale
Building internal platforms or APIs used by other infrastructure teams
Based near our colocation sites, or able to visit them regularly
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 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!
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