Render
Staff Developer Relations Engineer
$204K–$250K
Remote: United States · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in developer relations, solutions engineering, or software engineering; at least 3 years in a developer-facing role at a developer tools, cloud, or infrastructure company.
- Visa sponsorship
- Generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at Render's discretion and require business authorization.
About the job
Leads Render’s developer relations technical direction and represents the platform through events, workshops, partnerships, and developer communities, while channeling feedback into product improvements.
What you'll do
- Deliver talks, demos, workshops, and hackathons about building and running AI agents and full-stack applications on Render.
- Set DevRel priorities, develop ecosystem partnerships, and provide technical support to developers and startups.
- Collect developer feedback, communicate priorities to Product and Engineering, and track adoption and engagement impact.
What they ask 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.
- Track record of speaking at recognized developer conferences and designing and running workshops.
- Hands-on fluency with AI agents, including tool calling, MCP servers, LLM APIs, and agent frameworks.
- Engineering depth and working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, including containers and Docker, networking, CI/CD, environment configuration, and infrastructure as code.
Nice to have
- Relationships in AI framework, agent tooling, or open source communities, or an existing developer audience.
- Experience with durable workflows, background job systems, sandboxed code execution, in-person meetups, or Render.
Pay
$204K – $250K (base salary)
Tools
MCP servers, LLM APIs, Docker, CI/CD, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Render Workflows
AI focus
Build and demonstrate AI agent applications, explain their production requirements, and advise developers on running AI workloads on Render.
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