Valkey Product Engineer

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.

The Key/Value team operates and maintains our KV product for millions of users. User experience is our primary focus and drives everything we do. As a product engineer at Render, you will take complete, end‑to‑end ownership of full‑stack projects. You should already have experience building a Key/Value platform.

What You'll Do

• Operate and maintain the Render KV fleet.
• Collaborate closely with design, product, other engineers, and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Help evolve and mature the Render KV product as it scales and increases in complexity over time.
• Participate in team planning, roadmapping, and goal‑setting.
• Help shape team culture and practices as the company scales.
• Help evolve the KV product with new capabilities.
• Participate in on‑call responsibilities with the rest of your team.

What We're Looking For

We’re seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience shipping software.
• Bonus points if you’ve excelled at a small, high‑growth startup.
• Experience collaborating with product and design stakeholders.
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to make pragmatic decisions about your work.
• Comfort with working in a distributed system.
• Experience operating a KV datastore at scale.
• Familiarity with modern tooling for software build and deploy processes.

Nice‑to‑Haves

• Experience wearing multiple hats and working across the stack, both collaboratively and independently.
• Strong understanding of web frameworks, APIs, and databases, and experience working with multiple programming languages.
• Familiarity building for product‑driven growth and modern enterprise audiences.
• Experience with any of the technologies the Render product runs on: Go, Typescript, React, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, Temporal.

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.

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.

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.

Equal‑Opportunity Employer

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.