Backend Engineer, Render
Managed Datastores
$150-220k
+ Equity
Cloud application hosting for developers
Job no longer available
Cloud application hosting for developers
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$150-220k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower every developer and business to move fast and focus on what matters most to them.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for engineers with deep specialization in databases, specifically building solutions that use open source databases to store and retrieve data
- We are particularly interested in experience with running distributed systems on Kubernetes and supporting many different types of databases - anything our customers can imagine!
- Deep experience in databases, including but not limited to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, or CockroachDB
- Experience deploying, operating, and managing production-level PostgreSQL or other database systems at scale (e.g., in "as-a-service" environment)
- Experience building, operating and scaling workloads on Kubernetes clusters
- Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging production systems at scale
- Experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure
Desirable
- Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, and SignalFx
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible
- Security hardening skills, especially in the context of untrusted workloads
What the job involves
- Add to the features of our managed database offerings (currently, we offer PostgreSQL and Redis)
- Collaborate with other engineers on high-impact projects like high availability failover, point in time recovery, zero downtime upgrades, and automated performance tuning
- Improve the metrics and insights available to our users so they understand their performance, optimize their usage, and control when we run maintenance on their database
- Develop Kubernetes operators that automate databases on our platform
- Improve the performance and reliability of our managed database offerings
- Debug issues at all levels in our infrastructure stack
- Improve the performance and reliability of databases through increased observability, load testing, and chaos engineering
- Participate in our on-call rotation, with the rest of the engineering team
Our take
Without the right infrastructure, building applications and other products can be a slow and painstaking process. Render solves this problem with its unified cloud services platform, a developer platform that allows teams to build websites and apps quickly and at scale.
Render has raised impressive funding, which has allowed it to develop and roll-out a number of innovative tools and features, including a free plan for web services and databases. This improves access to Render's platform, and helps to further scale its user base.
Render's main challenge is competing with large-scale legacy players, including the "big three": Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. However, so far Render has held its own, largely thanks to its superior flexibility, innovative modern features and competitive price.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2026
$100m
SERIES C
Jan 2025
$80m
SERIES C
Total funding: $256.8m
Company benefits
- Monthly commuter stipend
- Fully stocked kitchen
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- 4 weeks PTO
- 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and all your dependents
- FSAs
- $60 per month for however you prefer to stay in shape
- $100 per month for mental health support
- Traditional or Roth 401(k) plans
- Long-term disability and life insurance
- Equity options
- Continuous learning benefits & related support
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Anurag Goel
(CEO & Founder)An early engineer and former Head of Risk at Stripe. Also founded Crestle.
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