Staff DX Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop tutorials, demo applications, and videos that guide developers in creating real applications on Render, with a focus on AI applications, agents, and Render AI runtime products like Render Workflows.

• Take ownership of Render templates and the render-examples GitHub organization for frequently requested frameworks.

• Ensure that all shipped products are deployable and functional.

• Create agent skills, automation, and internal tools to minimize repetitive content and operational tasks.

• Enhance Render's visibility in LLM and answer-engine results.

• Investigate reasons for Render's absence from relevant answers and develop content or solutions to address these gaps.

• Conduct alpha testing on new releases from start to finish and document any failures for the Product and Engineering teams.

• Contribute code to developer-facing platforms, including the Render CLI, MCP server, SDKs, and documentation.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to shape the content roadmap and maintain quality standards.

• Iterate on projects based on feedback and performance metrics.

• Establish the technical direction for DX Engineering's content and tools.

• Elevate team standards through reviews, established guidelines, and individual contributions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in developing developer content or serving as an engineer who teaches at a developer tools or infrastructure company.

• Proven experience in setting technical direction and enhancing team performance.

• Full-stack engineering expertise.

• Strong backend development skills with Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and Postgres.

• Proficiency with Docker and containers.

• Adequate frontend skills to deliver sample applications from start to finish.

• Extensive, hands-on experience with AI agents and their associated workloads.

• Experience in building and deploying agents that utilize tools, execute code in sandboxes, and manage long-running tasks with retries and state handling.

• Familiarity with the infrastructure requirements for AI agent workloads.

• Experience with MCP servers, agent frameworks, LLM APIs, evaluations, and durable workflow or background job systems.

• Daily proficiency with coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.

• Exceptional technical writing skills.

• Proven ability to manage projects from inception to completion with minimal guidance.

• Strong intuition for developer tools and a passion for well-designed user experiences.

• Experience with Render is a plus.

• Experience with AEO or SEO is a plus.

• A public portfolio of work is a plus.

• Experience in conducting workshops and technical presentations is a plus.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; however, existing visa transfers may be sponsored at Render's discretion with business approval.

🏝️ Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.

• Long-term disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• 401K plans.

• 100% employer-paid medical coverage for you and a dependent.

• 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.

• FSAs and HSAs.

• 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.

• Home office stipends for remote Renders.

• Continuous learning benefits and related support.

• Equity.

• Remote work within the United States.

• Option to work from headquarters in San Francisco.