Technical Sourcer, Engineering (Temporary)
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 3 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In January 2025, we raised $80M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $157M, 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’s next Technical Sourcer will play a foundational role in scaling our Engineering organization as we build the cloud platform powering the next generation of AI startups. You’ll partner directly with hiring managers and TA to identify, engage, and nurture world-class engineering talent across product, backend, infrastructure, and security teams.
This role is ideal for a proactive, technically-oriented Sourcer who thrives in fast-moving startup environments and loves the challenge of mapping talent, building pipelines quickly, finding hidden profiles, and building long-term candidate relationships. You’ll have a seat at the table helping us refine sourcing strategy, improve our outreach quality, and strengthen Render’s reputation among top engineering talent.
You Will:
Partner with recruiters and engineering leadership to design and execute sourcing strategies for critical roles across Product, Infrastructure, Platform, and Security Engineering.
Identify, engage, and nurture top-of-funnel candidates using creative sourcing channels including GitHub, LinkedIn, Slack communities, and specialized engineering forums.
Source and reach out to 100 candidates per requisition on a weekly basis
Build deep talent maps of key companies and technical domains, surfacing high-quality, high-intent candidates early in the search process.
Craft compelling outreach that reflects Render’s mission and culture, driving exceptional candidate engagement.
Maintain and report on pipeline health, outreach metrics, and conversion data to inform recruiting strategy.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Recruiting Operations, and Brand to strengthen our employer brand and candidate experience.
Proactively contribute to process improvements and tools that make sourcing more scalable and data-driven.
Work closely with domain experts and hiring managers to calibrate quickly.
We're Looking For:
3–5+ years of sourcing experience in high-growth tech environments, ideally supporting engineering or infrastructure teams.
Demonstrated success identifying and engaging technical talent.
Deep familiarity with sourcing tools and platforms (LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, Ashby, GitHub, Stack Overflow, etc.).
Strong communication and storytelling ability; capable of representing Render authentically and compellingly to top technical talent.
Comfortable managing multiple priorities and searches in a dynamic, startup setting.
Analytical mindset with dynamic grasp of data, metrics, and continuous improvement.
Collaborative, empathetic partner who works seamlessly with recruiters and hiring managers.
Nice-to-Haves:
Experience supporting AI, cloud infrastructure, or developer tools companies.
Comprehensive understanding of the start-up space and competitors
Familiarity with Render’s stack (Go, Node, React, Kubernetes, Postgres) or similar technologies.
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.
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!