Render
Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure
$236K–$290K
Remote: United States +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Remote: United States
San Francisco HQ
Remote: Canada - Experience
- At least 6 years building and operating large-scale networking or infrastructure systems.
- Visa sponsorship
- Generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at Render’s discretion with business authorization.
About the job
Build and operate Render’s network infrastructure, improving traffic routing, customer networking capabilities, and reliability across data centers and cloud providers.
What you'll do
- Own core network infrastructure and develop customer-facing networking capabilities.
- Investigate networking issues across the kernel, data plane, distributed systems, and edge; improve performance and reliability.
- Partner across the company, participate in on-call, and improve incident response.
What they ask for
- Experience with Kubernetes networking internals or similar container networking technology.
- Production experience with Linux networking internals.
- Experience building and operating large-scale traffic routing systems such as load balancers, ingress, or proxies.
- Strong distributed-systems experience and experience executing high-risk changes with minimal downtime.
Nice to have
- Experience with eBPF or advanced Linux kernel networking.
- Experience developing systems in Go or similar languages that interact with low-level OS and networking primitives.
Pay
$236K – $290K USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, kube-proxy, CNI plugins, Linux, netfilter, iptables, nftables, eBPF
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