The opportunity
As a Software Engineer on Developer Velocity, you'll design and build the internal platform, tooling, and automation that lets every Render engineer move quickly and safely. You'll drive changes in our local development environments, CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and the…
What you'll do
Improve speed and reliability of early change feedback Invest in build and: dependency tooling, caching, incremental builds, and monorepo ergonomics, to keep iteration tight as the codebase grows.
Accelerate our CI/CD pipelines: cutting build, test, and deploy times while keeping the path to production safe and reversible.
Make our test suites fast and trustworthy: parallelization, smart test selection, flaky-test detection, and better local/preview environments built on the same primitives our customers use.
Design and build tools to support concurrent agent execution Make test: feedback fast enough to live inside an agent's loop, where slow or flaky runs compound across every attempt.
Get agents the right context (codebase conventions, service ownership, recent: changes, environment state) so their first attempt lands closer to correct.
Simplify and establish repeatable patterns Reduce toil through automation,: paving over repetitive workflows and manual steps wherever they slow people down.
What they're looking for
- Experience building and operating developer-facing tooling, CI/CD systems, or: internal platforms that other engineers depend on every day.
- Experience driving cultural and process changes to make engineering teams more effective.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping,: maintaining, and debugging production systems.
- Proficiency in Go (or a strong willingness to ramp quickly, it's our primary language).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (yup, Terraform).
- A bias toward measurement: you instrument what you build and let data tell you whether you actually made things faster.
- You empathize deeply with engineers, fixing developer pain points in an: elegant and sustainable manner is something that resonates deeply with you.
