\nAt Render we are building a powerful, easy-to-use cloud platform to host anything online: from simple static sites to complex applications with dozens of microservices. Render offers the flexibility of traditional cloud providers without their complexity and maintenance headaches so developers and businesses can focus on building products instead of managing servers.\n\nWe're a talented and diverse group solving a problem faced by every development team. We iterate quickly while placing the utmost importance on user experience, quality, and reliability. We push ourselves to do better every day. With tens of thousands of customers and rapidly increasing revenue, we're on to something big.\nApplying to Render\n\nRender is scaling rapidly. Our customers have created hundreds of thousands of services on our platform, and the numbers continue to accelerate. Our customers trust us to deliver a secure, reliable and performant cloud — this is our top priority as a company.\n\nWe're looking for candidates with high integrity, low ego, and an insatiable drive to learn. We use reasoned discussion and constant feedback to improve as individuals and as a company. We cultivate mutual trust and respect, empowering us to debate ideas effectively and create the best outcomes for our customers and our team.\n\nWe especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.\n\nOur interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.\nAbout the Role\n\nWe are looking for an experienced backend software engineer with a specialization in Database-as-a-Service, building solutions that use open source databases to store and retrieve data. We are particularly interested in experience with running distributed self-serve systems on Kubernetes or supporting many different types of databases.\n\nRender's Datastores team is building easy-to-start and easy-to-scale structured data storage products for our customers: product engineers. Our customers want to minimize their time managing their databases and focus on adding value to their products and businesses. We build powerful, flexible tools that scale with our customers needs with little effort from them. Render's Datastore products provide our customers optimization insights and advanced workflows when it becomes appropriate for them, without having to hire a DBA or operations team.\n\nWe give our users peace of mind and confidence that their data is in a reliable and secure product. Whether the user is creating their first PostgreSQL instance or has worked with databases for years, our interfaces will be intuitive and easy to use.\n\nBy joining us at an early stage, you will design and build the cloud infrastructure databases you've always wanted for yourself, and make decisions that will shape our product and company, directly impacting developers around the globe.\nYou will:\n\n\n* Build new features of our managed database offerings to delight our customers (currently, we offer PostgreSQL and Redis).\n\n* Collaborate with other engineers on high-impact projects like high availability failover, point in time recovery, zero downtime upgrades, and automated performance tuning.\n\n* Improve the metrics and insights available to our users so they understand their performance, optimize their usage, and control when we run maintenance on their database.\n\n* Develop Kubernetes operators that automate databases on our platform.\n\n* Improve the performance and reliability of our managed database offerings.\n\n* Debug issues at all levels in our infrastructure stack.\n\n* Improve the performance and reliability of databases through increased observability, load testing, and chaos engineering.\n\n* Participate in our on-call rotation, with the rest of the engineering team.\n\n\n\nWe’re looking for:\n\n\n* 6+ years full-time experience developing, maintaining, and debugging production systems at scale.\n\n* Experience building, operating and scaling workloads on Kubernetes clusters.\n\n* Deep experience in databases, including but not limited to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, or CockroachDB.\n\n* Experience deploying, operating, and managing production-level PostgreSQL or other database systems at scale (in "as-a-service" environment).\n\n* Experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure.\n\n\n\nNice-to-haves:\n\n\n* Experience with Go or a similar language.\n\n* Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, or SignalFx.\n\n* Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible.\n\n* Security hardening skills, especially in the context of untrusted workloads.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\n* Our openings span more than one career level. The starting salary for this role is between $150,000 and $220,000 USD. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, and market demands.\n\n* The opportunity is also eligible for equity with early exercise options and extended exercise windows.\n\n* 4 weeks of paid vacation, available from day one.\n\n* 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.\n\n* Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.\n\n* 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs available as well.\n\n* Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental heath and therapy, hobbies, etc. \n\n* Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.\n\n* Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.\n\n* Continuous learning benefits & related support.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nRender is an equal-opportunity employer. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product, and our community to flourish. We make all employment decisions, including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.\n\nWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.\n\nWe encourage all who are interested to apply. We can't wait to hear from you! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Cloud, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco, California, United States

\nOur mission is to increase the success rate of small businesses. Traditional banking has been a growth limiter rather than a growth enabler for business owners, and we’re changing that. Relay is the all-in-one, collaborative money management platform. We’re building for employer SMBs and their finance function, internal and external, and are focused on delivering a human-centric customer experience. Ultimately, we help SMBs be ‘on the money'.\n\n\nWe’re looking for an incredible Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Trust team. Your love of making high-impact decisions daily and desire to help shape the future of Relay is going to be crucial. The team’s vision is “Protecting the cathedral while enabling the bazaar” - quite a challenge in the scope of our multiple environments.\n\n\n*Please note that we will only consider applicants that are based in the Eastern Time zone. For those based in the Greater Toronto Area, we have a hybrid work environment and choose to collaborate in the Toronto office twice a week.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\n* Join the team owning our production infrastructures (AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL databases, Terraform, Terragrunt)\n* Review infrastructure change requests, and triage & fix high-risk security and privacy issues in infrastructure components\n* Write playbooks, and run game days and threat modelling\n* Build monitoring systems to dynamically assess the infrastructure health\n* Improve our data repositories (db, warehouse, lake) posture: engine upgrade, zero-downtime migrations, privacy taggings\n* Provide guidance and mentoring for the rest of the team and help evolve Relay into a world-class security-oriented organization\n* Participate in the on-call rotation\n\n\n\nWho You Are:\n* You have 5+ years of experience working in a DevOps or SRE role\n* You have experience as an SRE working with these technologies: AWS, Datadog, Github, GHA, k8s, etc.\n* You have experience as a DBA (Aurora RDS, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, ElastiCache)\n* You have experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, Node.js, Typescript\n* You have a strong security and operation focus; we are looking for someone to help us continue building security into every aspect of our work - and is ready to be on-call for production issues\n* You are a team player - our team is small and mighty, and we collaborate constantly - we want someone who is always willing to pitch in and isn’t afraid to ask for help\n* You are curious. You keep yourself on the bleeding edge of infrastructure best practices. \n\n\n\nBonus Points:\n* Show us your home lab! We have Ubiquity gears everywhere and we like to geek-out on our k8s clusters that control in-house experience\n* Send us your HackerOne account id - Security permeates everything we are doing\n* You’ve joined a company at its early stages and have seen it through scale\n* You have experience working in a fintech startup\n\n\n\nOur SRE Tech Stack:\n* Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, ECS\n* Cloud Platform: AWS (DynamoDB, RDS Postgres, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, SES, ElasticSearch, ECS, EKS, AND MORE)\n* Monitoring: Datadog\n* Relevant Languages: Javascript/Typescript, GoLang, Python \n* IAC: Terraform/Terragrunt\n* Tools: Github, GHA, Cloudflare\n\n\n\nOur Commitment To You:\n* Competitive salary and meaningful equity: every team member gets a piece of the pie.\n* Comprehensive health benefits: we offer full health benefits + an HSA/WSA starting from day 1 so you get the coverage you need.\n* Considerable vacation/end-of-year holiday shutdown: we take time off to reset and recharge so we come back better for our customers.\n* Hybrid work environment: we love collaborating and connecting in the office two times a week and offer catered lunches and a snack/beverage program for the days we’re in office. Don’t forget to bring in your furry friends!\n* Personal and professional growth: support from leaders who care about your growth and success through regular feedback and coaching. Our goal is to make Relay a step-change career opportunity.\n* Top-tier equipment: we’ll make sure you have everything you need to produce your best work.\n* Team-first culture: we’re passionate about working collaboratively, bonding through team events, and most importantly having fun.\n\n\n\nThe Interview Process:\n* Stage 1: A 30-minute Google Meets video call with a member of the Talent Team\n* Stage 2: A 45-minute Google Meets video call with the SRE Lead\n* Stage 3: A 60-minute case study presentation with members of the Trust team\n* Stage 4: A 30-minute Google Meets video call with the Head of Engineering and Co-Founder\n\n\n\n\n\nResearch shows that women-identifying and other marginalized individuals tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications; if you don't have all the listed qualifications, we encourage you to apply anyway!\n\n\nWhat’s Important to Us:\nAt Relay, we believe that diversity is key to building high-performing teams, and creating an inclusive work environment is our priority. We are an equal-opportunity employer and we welcome people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. \n\n\nWe will work with applicants to provide accommodations at any stage of the hiring process. If you require accommodations during the interview process, please email your People Team contact, and we will work with you to meet your needs. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, DevOps, Finance, Video, Senior and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nOntario