render - Staff Developer Relations Engineer
Requirements
• 8+ years in developer relations, solutions engineering, or software engineering, including at least 3 years in a developer-facing role at a developer tools, cloud, or infrastructure company. • A track record on stage: talks at recognized developer conferences, and workshops you designed and ran yourself. • Experience setting direction for a developer relations program: choosing where to invest, measuring what worked, and changing course. • Hands-on fluency with AI agents: tool calling, MCP servers, LLM APIs, and agent frameworks. You can build a working agent app live and explain what it needs to run in production, such as long-running tasks, sandboxed code execution, and retries. The field is young, so we look at what you've done recently. We don't expect years of experience in it. • The engineering depth to be credible with senior engineers. You can deploy a multi-service app, read logs, trace a failed deploy, and find the root cause in front of an audience. • Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure: containers and Docker, networking basics, CI/CD, environment configuration, and infrastructure as code. • You use coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor every day and keep up with the agent ecosystem as it changes. • Examples of developer feedback you turned into product changes: what you heard, the case you made, and what shipped. • Excellent spoken and written communication. You can hold a room of engineers and explain a complex system clearly. • Existing relationships in AI framework, agent tooling, or open source communities. • Experience starting or growing in-person developer meetups. • Experience with durable workflows, background job systems, or sandboxed code execution. • You've used Render before, professionally or on side projects. • PROJECTS YOU MIGHT WORK ON • A workshop on deploying production agents with Render Workflows, run at a major AI conference and then at our own meetups. • A hackathon co-hosted with an AI framework partner, including the starter kit and the technical support on the day. • The talk track for an upcoming launch, delivered by you and the rest of DevRel. • A recurring field report for Product on where developers get stuck running agents on Render. • If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique experience might be just what we need.
Responsibilities
• Represent Render at conferences, meetups, hackathons, podcasts, and livestreams, with talks and live demos on building and running AI agents and full-stack apps. • Design and run hands-on workshops and hackathons, from the curriculum to the technical setup behind them. • Set DevRel's technical direction: pick the communities, ecosystems, and events worth investing in, and define what good looks like for talks, workshops, and demos. • Be the technical counterpart for ecosystem partners such as AI frameworks, agent tooling, and open source projects: joint workshops, co-hosted events, and the integrations worth building together. • Go deep in technical communities on GitHub, X, Discord, Reddit, and Hacker News. Answer hard questions, debug real deployments, and show up where Render has a credible voice. • Run the developer feedback loop. Turn what you hear in the field into clear, prioritized input for Product and Engineering, and follow it through until it ships. • Help Render's highest-potential developers and startups go further on the platform through technical deep dives and architecture reviews, and turn them into champions who talk about Render in their own communities. • Raise the bar for the DevRel team through talk reviews, demo reviews, and your own work. • Track impact through activation from events and workshops, community engagement, partner-driven adoption, and the product changes you drove.
Benefits
• 4 weeks of paid vacation. • 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. • This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization. • Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and community to flourish. 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. • We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. • We encourage all who are interested to apply. We can't wait to hear from you! • Render — CCPA Applicant Privacy Notice https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wKr9IejoT5McFrs9I2mahQnf6AFwb3z2/view • Render — GDPR Applicant Privacy Notice https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_8jtyXQ1HdRdTdQn9sZ7n-R-zAGBmsFa/view
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