Software Engineer, Security

🕒 September 20, 2025

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $193k - $265k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Render

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

☁️ SaaS

SaaS • Cloud Computing • Web Hosting

Render is a modern cloud platform for developers and teams that simplifies the process of building, deploying, and scaling applications. It offers a range of services including web services, static sites, cron jobs, background workers, PostgreSQL databases, and Redis management. Render's platform is designed for ease of use with features such as automatic deployments, load-based autoscaling, and infrastructure as code. It also provides robust security measures like DDoS protection and data privacy compliance. Render caters to a wide range of development stacks with support for various programming languages and Docker images, providing developers with a seamless environment to manage and scale their infrastructure. With a focus on speed, reliability, and collaboration, Render helps developers efficiently manage their applications and infrastructure from development to production.

📋 Description

• 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, and in return, inform our security program. • Communicate security risks and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders as part of company-wide planning and prioritization processes. • Stay up-to-date with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and best practices and make recommendations for improvements to our security posture. • Partner with product engineering teams to inform and build thoughtful security features for our customers. • Continually ensure that our systems have appropriate authentication, authorization, and accounting with low internal overhead. • Full-Stack Security Ownership: run the entire security lifecycle at Render. • Engineering-First Approach: build solutions that integrate with development workflows. • Proactive: perform continuous assessment, automated monitoring, and rapid response.

🎯 Requirements

• 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 our customers. • Strong sense of ownership and ability to make pragmatic decisions about your work. • High integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. • Are you legally authorized to work in the United States of America? (application asks about work authorization and visa sponsorship) • Nice-to-haves: • 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, demonstrating practical experience in identifying and leveraging vulnerabilities to assess security posture. • Experience securing applications and systems through threat modelling and risk assessments. • Active participation and contributions to the security community through public research, blogging, presentations, and other means.

🏖️ Benefits

• This opportunity is also 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 to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return. • 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 and HSAs are available as well. • 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.