[Hiring] Valkey Product Engineer @Render

Role Description

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.

Our Key/Value team operates and maintains our KV 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 our customers’ needs evolve.

User experience is our primary focus and drives everything we do. As a product engineer at Render, you will take complete, end-to-end ownership of full stack projects. You should already have experience building a Key/Value platform.

What You'll Do

• Operate and maintain the Render KV fleet.
• Collaborate closely with design, product, other engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Help evolve and mature the Render KV 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 KV product with new capabilities.
• Participate in on-call responsibilities with the rest of your team.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience shipping software. Bonus points if you’ve excelled at a small, high-growth startup.
• 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 a KV datastore 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.

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.
• 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.