Software Engineer, Security

About Render

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.

Our platform is trusted by over 3 million developers worldwide. In January 2025, we raised $80M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $157M, 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.

The Render Security team is a small, dedicated team of engineers that runs all things security at Render.

• Full-Stack Security Ownership - We don't just monitor; we build. From custom security tooling to comprehensive threat assessment, we own the entire security lifecycle at Render.
• Engineering-First Approach - We are a team of engineers that understand security deeply, we create solutions that integrate seamlessly with development workflows rather than creating friction.
• Proactive - We stay ahead of threats through continuous assessment, automated monitoring, and rapid response.

By joining Render at an early stage, you will be directly involved with building out foundational security for Render and make decisions that will shape our product and company, directly impacting developers around the globe.

• Build internal tooling to enable secure access to resources (e.g., wrappers, utilities, authentication services, and proxies).
• Implement detection and monitoring systems that alert the team to high signal vulnerabilities.
• Analyze and assess security issues identified through threat modeling, penetration testing, security scans and vulnerability disclosure.
• Work with developers on sensitive code paths and educate them on secure design patterns.
• Liaise with customers regarding their security and compliance needs, and in return, inform our security program.
• Communicate security risks and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders as part of company-wide planning and prioritization processes.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and best practices and make recommendations for improvements to our security posture.
• Partner with product engineering teams to inform and build thoughtful security features for our customers.
• Continually ensure that our systems have appropriate authentication, authorization, and accounting with low internal overhead.

• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering or security.
• Experience designing and building secure web applications, tools, and APIs.
• Experience with vulnerability review and analysis.
• Strong incident leadership and diligent response.
• Empathy toward the rest of the team and our customers.
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to make pragmatic decisions about your work.

• Detection engineering experience through implementation and maintenance of a SIEM.
• Experience with any of the technologies the Render product runs on:
  Go, Typescript, Kubernetes, Postgres,…