Staff DX Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build tutorials, demo applications, videos, templates, and technical content focused on AI applications, agents, and Render AI runtime products.
• Own Render templates and the render-examples GitHub organization, ensuring shipped examples deploy and run successfully.
• Build agent skills, automation, and internal tools to reduce repetitive content and operations work.
• Improve Render’s presence in LLM and answer-engine results through content and product changes.
• Alpha test new releases end to end and document failures for Product and Engineering.
• Contribute code to the Render CLI, MCP server, SDKs, and documentation.
• Shape the content roadmap and quality bar with DevRel, Product Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Marketing.
• Set technical direction for DX Engineering and raise team standards through reviews, standards, and hands-on work.

Requirements

• 8+ years building developer content or working as an engineer who teaches at a developer tools or infrastructure company.
• Experience setting technical direction and raising the bar for a team.
• Full-stack engineering experience with strong backend skills in Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and Postgres, plus Docker and container experience.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents that call tools, run code in sandboxes, and handle long-running tasks with retries and state.
• Experience with MCP servers, agent frameworks, LLM APIs, evaluations, and durable workflow or background job systems.
• Daily fluency with coding agents including Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.
• Excellent technical writing and a strong understanding of developer tools and user experience.
• Track record of owning projects end to end with little direction.
• Preferred experience includes using Render, AEO or SEO, measuring content performance in LLM answers, public technical work, workshops, or technical talks.

Benefits

• Four weeks of paid vacation.
• Fourteen weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents, with return-to-work support.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, with FSA and HSA availability.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, and related needs.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Bay Area commuter benefits and home office stipends for remote employees.
• Continuous learning benefits and related support.
• Remote within the US, with an option to work from Render’s San Francisco headquarters.