Software Engineer, Security

Render

101d

About The Position

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. Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first 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. Our platform is trusted by over 3 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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, Terraform, Temporal.
• Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA or PCI.
• Proven expertise in exploiting common security vulnerabilities, demonstrating practical experience in identifying and leveraging vulnerabilities to assess security posture.
• Experience securing applications and systems through threat modelling and risk assessments.
• Active participation and contributions to the security community through public research, blogging, presentations, and other means.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• This opportunity is also eligible for equity with early-exercise options and extended exercise windows.
• 4 weeks of paid vacation, available from day one.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child.
• 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees