Software Engineer, Security

Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. The platform offers persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, trusted by over 7 million developers. In February 2026, Render raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing total funding to $260M.

The Render Security team is a small, dedicated team of engineers that runs all things security at Render. The team takes a full-stack security ownership approach, building custom security tooling and integrating security seamlessly into development workflows.

• 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.
• Communicate security risks and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and best practices.
• Partner with product engineering teams to build thoughtful security features.
• Ensure systems have appropriate authentication, authorization, and accounting with low internal overhead.

• 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 customers.
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to make pragmatic decisions.

• 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.
• Experience securing applications and systems through threat modelling and risk assessments.
• Active participation in the security community through public research, blogging, presentations.

Salary range: $170K – $290K, plus equity. Benefits include 4 weeks of paid vacation, 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, long-term disability, life insurance, 401K plans, 100% employer-paid medical coverage, 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage, FSAs and HSAs, monthly lifestyle stipend, monthly cell phone and internet subsidy, commuter benefits for Bay Area employees, home office stipends for remote employees, and continuous learning benefits.

Apply through the provided application link.