Render

Customer Engineer

Render$110K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in a customer-facing technical role (customer engineering, solutions engineering, technical support, or developer relations).
  • Experience with high-volume, one-to-many customer engagement models.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, including containers, deploys, autoscaling, and CI/CD.
  • Familiarity with Postgres and common database migration patterns (e.g., Heroku, AWS RDS).
  • Fluent in AI applications and comfortable advising clients on AI-centric technologies.
  • Exceptional written communication skills for content creation.
  • Data-driven mindset with the ability to prioritize tasks based on team objectives.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Scaled Account Managers to develop outreach strategies based on customer usage signals.
  • Manage onboarding processes for high-growth AI startups, ensuring comprehensive activation support.
  • Work with Support Engineering to transform customer insights into effective programs and best practices.
  • Enhance scalable engagement tools, including in-app content and technical enablement resources.
  • Execute large-scale customer programs such as webinars and community outreach initiatives.
  • Convert common customer inquiries into self-service content and relevant in-product guidance.
  • Ensure accurate tracking of customer activities and requests to facilitate communication within Field Engineering.

Benefits

  • 4 weeks of paid vacation.
  • 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
  • Comprehensive medical coverage at 100% employer-paid, plus 99% for dental and vision.
  • Monthly stipends for wellness, cell phone, internet, and home office expenses.
  • Support for continuous learning and development.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are hiring the first members of Render's Scaled Programs Customer Engineering team to help run the technical side of our scaled, digital-first customer motion. You'll support high-growth accounts without dedicated technical coverage, including our startup program cohort, through programmatic, one-to-many engagement rather than a traditional one-to-one model. The role has two halves: running scaled programs (in-app engagement, targeted outreach against expansion and churn signals, webinars) and contributing to the tools and content that power the broader Field Engineering organization (health triggers, growth and expansion opportunities based on product usage, pricing and sizing tools, POC templates, and enablement content). You'll partner closely with our Scaled Account Managers and report into Render's Field Engineering organization.

What You'll Do
  • Partner with Scaled AMs and Field Engineering teammates to turn expansion and churn signals (bandwidth, egress, usage patterns) into plays: AM talking points, programmatic outreach, and in-app prompts.
  • Operate startup program onboarding: Intercom checklists, guided flows, and activation follow-up for high-growth AI startups.
  • Partner with Support Engineering to identify recurring mistakes and best practices, then turn those insights into programs and content that reduce customer friction.
  • Build and improve components of our scaled-engagement toolkit: in-app programs, outbound triggers, pricing and sizing calculators (e.g., Heroku and AWS RDS migrations to Postgres), POC templates, and reusable technical enablement.
  • Run scaled customer programs: webinars, Slack community touchpoints, and pattern-based outreach across account cohorts, partnered with Scaled AMs.
  • Translate recurring customer questions and technical best practices into timely in-product guidance and self-service content.
  • Maintain activity tracking and feature-request data hygiene so reliable customer signals flow to the rest of Field Engineering and Product.


What We're Looking For
  • 3+ years in a customer-facing technical role: customer engineering, solutions engineering, technical support, or developer relations.
  • Comfort operating a high-volume, one-to-many motion; you can independently execute clearly scoped programs and build systems and content rather than relying on 1:1 time.
  • Strong fundamentals across cloud infrastructure: containers, deploys, autoscaling, networking, and CI/CD.
  • Working knowledge of Postgres and common database migration patterns (Heroku, AWS RDS).
  • AI fluency: you use AI tools daily in your own workflow, and you're comfortable advising customers building AI-native and LLM-powered applications.
  • Strong written communication; you'll be a primary producer of docs, playbooks, and in-app content.
  • Data-driven, able to prioritize work against team goals, and comfortable asking for context or support when ambiguity could affect the outcome.


Nice-to-Haves
  • Experience with Intercom or a similar in-app engagement and messaging platform.
  • Experience building internal or customer-facing tools that scale a team's impact beyond 1:1 work.
  • Experience in a PLG or high-volume account environment.
  • Prior experience with Heroku or other cloud migrations.

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.

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 visasponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.

About Render

Render is a cloud platform that makes it easy for developers and teams to deploy, manage, and scale web applications and static sites. Render is built on a modern tech stack consisting of Go, Rust, Node.js, Docker, and Kubernetes. Render's platform is designed to be simple, fast, and reliable, with a focus on automation and ease of use. Render is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Learn more about Render
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2018

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