engineering
Posted 1 weeks agoPostgres Product Engineer
at render
United StatesRemote
Requirements
- At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications.
- experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers.
- Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.
- 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 Postgres team operates and maintains our Postgres product for a very large number of our millions of users.
- Running stateful services at scale is challenging, and we continue to add new features as both Postgres and our customers’ needs evolve. User
- experience building a Postgres platform.
- WHAT YOU'LL DO - Operate and maintain the Render Postgres fleet. - Collaborate closely with design, product, other engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders. - Help evolve and mature the Render Postgres product as it scales and increases in complexity over time. - Participate in team planning, roadmapping, and goal-setting. - Help shape team culture and practices as the company scales. - Help evolve the Postgres product with new capabilities. - Participate in on-call
- Experience collaborating with product and design stakeholders. - Strong sense of ownership and ability to make pragmatic decisions about your work. - Comfort with working in a distributed system. -
- Experience operating Postgres at scale. - Familiarity with modern tooling for software build and deploy processes. NICE-TO-HAVES -
- Experience wearing multiple hats and working across the stack, both collaboratively and independently. - Strong understanding of web frameworks, APIs, and databases, and
- experience working with multiple programming languages. - Familiarity building for product-driven growth and modern enterprise audiences. -
- Experience with any of the technologies the Render product runs on: Go, Typescript, React, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, Temporal.
Experience
- responsibilities with the rest of your team. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 6+ years of professional experience shipping software.
Benefits
- In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $257M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development.
- Bonus points if you’ve excelled at a small, high-growth startup. -
- BENEFITS - 4 weeks of paid vacation. - 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child.
- We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return. - Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans. - 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.
- FSAs and HSAs are available as well. - Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc. - Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy. - Commuter
- benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders. - Continuous learning benefits & related support.
- This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship.
- At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers.
Additional details
- 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 6 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly.
- 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.
- 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.
- ABOUT THE ROLE Render's mission is to eliminate the undifferentiated work that goes into building software products by offering an easy-to-use, powerful cloud platform for developer teams of all sizes.