Render is looking for a Developer Relations Engineer to grow usage and word-of-mouth among full-stack application developers. You will build an engaged developer community around a platform with 3M+ developers and help establish Render as the developer platform of choice for deploying to the cloud.
What You'll Do
- Build and share high-impact technical content: blog posts, videos, quickstart guides, and sample apps.
- Develop and maintain code examples, tutorials, and native environments that showcase best practices.
- Represent Render at conferences, meetups, hackathons, and on podcasts.
- Engage directly with the developer community on GitHub, Discord, Reddit, and other platforms.
- Identify and improve high-leverage onboarding flows for popular frameworks and languages.
- Launch and support programs for developer champions, ambassadors, and early adopters.
- Serve as the voice of the developer internally, partnering with Product, Engineering, Support, and Marketing.
- Help plan and participate in Render-hosted technical events and community activations.
- Track the impact of DevRel efforts using adoption metrics, community engagement, and content performance.
What We're Looking For
- 4–6 years of experience in developer relations, engineering, solutions architecture, or similar technical community building.
- Strong technical foundation and experience with modern infrastructure, developer platforms, and web application frameworks.
- Passion for helping developers succeed, with a hands-on approach to education and enablement.
- Comfort debugging issues, building prototypes, technical content, and tools or examples that reduce friction for developers.
Nice to Have
- Ability to represent Render in local developer communities through events and meetups.
Technical Stack
- Python
- Node
- Typescript
Team & Environment
Partners with Product, Engineering, Support, and Marketing.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $193,000 and $265,000 USD + equity: Eligible for equity with early exercise options and extended exercise windows.
- 4 weeks of paid vacation, available from day one.
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
- 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. FSAs available.
- 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.
Render is an equal-opportunity employer. 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.
