Software Engineer, Agent Access & Governance
ABOUT THE ROLE
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.
We're looking for a software engineer to join our Access & Governance team and help build the next generation of security and governance experiences on Render. As AI agents become more prevalent and organizations scale on Render, you'll help shape how customers securely manage access, protect their applications, and maintain visibility and control over their infrastructure.
This is a product-focused engineering role where you'll solve complex platform challenges while building intuitive, customer-facing experiences that make security simple and accessible to developers.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design and ship customer-facing security and governance products, owning the experience end to end, from intuitive interfaces and APIs to the underlying backend systems.
- Build foundational platform capabilities that help developers, teams, services, and AI agents securely access and operate on Render.
- Tackle challenging engineering problems involving distributed systems, authorization, scalability, and reliability while keeping the customer experience simple.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to translate complex customer needs into elegant, impactful product experiences.
- Help evolve and operate critical platform systems, ensuring high standards for correctness, performance, observability, and safe rollouts.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 6+ years of experience shipping and operating production systems.
- Experience building and shipping customer-facing platform products, with a strong appreciation for intuitive UX, well-designed APIs, and end-to-end product ownership.
- Strong technical fundamentals and experience designing reliable, scalable systems, including navigating complex APIs, data models, and architectural tradeoffs.
- A product-minded approach to engineering, with the ability to balance technical complexity, customer experience, and business impact.
- A track record of driving ambiguous projects from concept to production while collaborating effectively with Product, Design, and Engineering.
We care more about the systems you've built and the decisions you made than whether your last role had a "security" title.
NICE-TO-HAVES:
- Hands-on experience with OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, JWTs or other authentication methods.
- Experience with multi-tenant authorization models such as RBAC, ABAC, or ReBAC, including policy engines or fine-grained authorization systems.
- Experience with workload identity, short-lived credentials, secrets management, privileged access, or security controls for services and agents.
- Experience building developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, identity product or SaaS products where APIs and backwards compatibility matter.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 and an ability to turn those requirements into security improvements for all customers.
- Contributions to open-source auth/security tooling.