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.
🏢 About Render
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—designed for the speed of modern AI development. We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience.
🎯 The Role
Most infrastructure engineers never get to build a cloud from the metal up. At Render, you will. Developers and businesses around the world run their apps on Render, and we are building our own bare metal footprint to give them better performance and economics. You'll help take our first colocation site from an empty cage to production workloads, then scale that foundation as we expand our physical presence to thousands of hosts over the coming years.
✅ Key Responsibilities
Take our first colocation site from empty cage to production workloads, then scale what you build as we grow to more sites and thousands of hosts
Design how servers go from the loading dock to production with minimal human touch: netboot, imaging, BMC-driven discovery, and host identity
Partner with network engineering on what the fleet needs from the network, from out-of-band management to production connectivity
Build the interface our Kubernetes platform team uses to request capacity, see host health, and coordinate maintenance, so consuming bare metal feels as easy as consuming cloud
Own the fleet's source of truth for hardware, software, and the physical environment
Automate the full server lifecycle, from burn-in and acceptance testing through remediation, staged firmware rollout, and RMA
Build automation like a production system, with guardrails on destructive actions and designs that survive site-level failure
Shape the technical and operational direction of our bare metal platform, from build-vs-buy decisions to how we operate thousands of hosts, and help hire the team that runs it
📌 Required Qualifications
Hands-on experience building and operating automation for bare metal fleets in datacenters or colocation
Both sides of the work: time with physical hardware and colo providers, and modern, software-driven fleet management
Strong Go or Python, and experience designing systems with reconciliation loops and idempotent, failure-tolerant actions
Depth below the abstraction: you know what your tools are doing under the hood and can debug them when they fail
Experience operating through real failures, such as bad hardware batches, flapping BMCs, or a rollout you had to halt
Deep Linux knowledge and solid networking fundamentals (DHCP, PXE, DNS, BGP)
Working knowledge of Kubernetes, enough to design the interface between the fleet and the clusters that run on it
Clear communication, comfort with ambiguity, and the willingness to push back on a plan when something doesn't add up
⭐ Desirable Experience
Operating bare metal fleets at a scale of thousands of hosts
Experience on a bare metal or datacenter build-out from its early days
Running a hybrid environment, or moving workloads between public cloud and owned hardware
DCIM/IPAM tools such as NetBox or Nautobot, or provisioning stacks such as Ironic/Metal3, Tinkerbell, or MAAS
Building reconcilers or state machines for physical infrastructure
Hardware depth: component diagnostics, burn-in tooling, firmware, or Redfish and IPMI at fleet scale
Building internal platforms or APIs used by others
🎁 Benefits
Compensation: $230K – $290K • Offers Equity
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
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.
