Staff Developer Relations Engineer
Staff-level DevRel engineer serving as Render's technical face: speaking at conferences and meetups, building demos and workshop material, engaging developer and AI communities, and feeding field feedback into product. Requires deep hands-on AI-agent skills (LLM APIs, MCP, agent frameworks) plus cloud infrastructure fluency.
- Compensation
- $204K–$250K / yr
- Location
- Remote: United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Developer relations
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years in developer relations, solutions engineering, or software engineering
- 3+ years in a developer-facing role at a developer tools, cloud, or infrastructure company
- Track record of talks at recognized developer conferences and self-designed workshops
- Experience setting direction for a developer relations program
- Hands-on fluency with AI agents: tool calling, MCP servers, LLM APIs, and agent frameworks
- Engineering depth to deploy multi-service apps, read logs, and debug failed deployments live
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure: Docker/containers, networking basics, CI/CD, environment configuration, infrastructure as code
- Daily use of coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor
- Examples of developer feedback turned into product changes
- Excellent spoken and written communication
Nice to have
- Existing relationships in AI framework, agent tooling, or open source communities
- Existing developer audience through talks, livestreams, newsletter, or social
- Experience starting or growing in-person developer meetups
- Experience with durable workflows, background job systems, or sandboxed code execution
- Prior experience using Render professionally or on side projects
Full description
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.
We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you.
Applying to Render
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. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.
We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.
Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.
About the Role
Render is looking for a Staff Developer Relations Engineer to grow usage and word of mouth for Render among developers building full-stack and AI applications. You'll be Render's technical face on stage, in workshops, at meetups, and in the developer and AI ecosystems where our users build.
DX at Render has two halves. DX Engineering builds and maintains Render's tutorials, sample apps, templates, and video library. DevRel takes Render to developers in person and through the communities and partners they trust, then brings what it hears back into the product. You'll set the technical bar and direction for DevRel, and you'll be the person developers and partners go to for a deep, candid answer about running AI workloads on Render.