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Cloud - Bare Metal Infrastructure Engineer

Render · Remote: United States · Remote

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About Render

Deploy and scale any app or agent from your first user to your billionth. Build faster on intuitive cloud infrastructure for the modern web. Backed by Bessemer, General Catalyst and AI Grant.

About the role

Most infrastructure engineers never get to build a cloud from the metal up. At Render, you will. Developers and businesses around the world run their apps on Render, and we are building our own bare metal footprint to give them better performance and economics. You'll help take our first colocation site from an empty cage to production workloads, then scale that foundation as we expand our physical presence to thousands of hosts over the coming years. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Hands-on experience building and operating automation for bare metal fleets in datacenters or colocation
  • Both sides of the work: time with physical hardware and colo providers, and modern, software-driven fleet management
  • Strong Go or Python, and experience designing systems with reconciliation loops and idempotent, failure-tolerant actions
  • Depth below the abstraction: you know what your tools are doing under the hood and can debug them when they fail
  • Experience operating through real failures, such as bad hardware batches, flapping BMCs, or a rollout you had to halt
  • Deep Linux knowledge and solid networking fundamentals (DHCP, PXE, DNS, BGP)
More about this role

At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure.

Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.

Our platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $260M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development.

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