Software Engineer, Security (all levels) - 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.

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.

Our platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $260M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive.

About the Role

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, creating 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 shape our product and company.

You will:

• 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, informing our security program.
• Communicate security risks and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders as part of company-wide planning and prioritization.
• Stay up to date with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and best practices.
• Partner with product engineering teams to build thoughtful security features for customers.
• Ensure that our systems maintain appropriate authentication, authorization, and accounting with low internal overhead.

We're looking for:

• 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 capabilities.
• 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 implementing and maintaining a SIEM.
• Experience with Render's stack: Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, or Temporal.
• Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or PCI.
• Practical experience identifying, exploiting, and assessing common security vulnerabilities.
• Experience securing applications and systems through threat modeling and risk assessments.
• Active contributions to the security community via research, blogging, or speaking.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage; 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent (FSAs and HSAs available).
• 401(k) plan, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, therapy, and hobbies.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Home office stipends for remote employees (commuter benefits for Bay Area).
• Continuous learning benefits and related support.