Cloud platform
Render
Render is a cloud for shipping apps and agents. Developers deploy services, databases, and background jobs without running the infrastructure themselves.
- Based in San Francisco, with remote team members worldwide
- About 100 people, as of February 2026
- Founded 2018
- 35 open roles
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“Render’s homepage says more than 8 million developers use it. The last announced valuation is $1.5B. That figure comes from a $100M round in February 2026. In June 2026 Anurag Goel said he hoped the team would reach about 200 people by the end of the year. Open roles are in the United States and Canada.”
Jack’s take on Render
The questions people ask Jack about Render
More than 8 million developers use Render
Developers on the platform.
In June 2026 Anurag said Render was adding more than 400,000 developers a month.
In February 2026 he told CNBC that revenue growth was well above 100%.
No layoffs reported.
Render has not published a revenue figure. Anurag told CNBC that chatbots had driven most of the company’s growth.
Georgian led a $100M round in February 2026
The size of each announced round.
Georgian
Addition
Bessemer
General Catalyst
01A
South Park CommonsIt has raised $258M in total.
The last announced valuation is $1.5B.
Render has not announced a valuation for an earlier round.
The team was about 100 people in February 2026
May 2025 is from a post by Anurag. February 2026 is from CNBC. In June 2026 he said he hoped to reach about 200 people by the end of the year. Render has not published a headcount since.
Its founder still runs it, with leaders hired from Webflow and Pulumi
Anurag GoelFounder and CEO
Stripe
Michael GreerVP of engineering, joined in October 2024
Discord
Eli StaykovaVP of marketing, joined in May 2025
Pulumi
Shuting ZhangVP of finance and operations, joined in June 2024
Webflow
Sam TaylorVP of revenue, joined in February 2026
LoomAnurag joined Stripe in 2011 as employee number 8. He started Render in January 2018, after selling Crestle to doc.ai. Render launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2019. It won the Startup Battlefield. Michael Greer left Discord in 2022 and cofounded Pebble. He joined Render in October 2024. Sam Taylor led revenue at Loom, then was chief revenue officer at Endgame. He joined Render in February 2026. The about page still names Megan Granat as VP of people. Her LinkedIn shows uninterrupted employment at Credit Karma since February 2016 and does not list a Render role at any date. The two pages conflict, and neither states a departure date.
Remote in the US or Canada, with 4 weeks of vacation
The pace. An operating principle is to reason clearly and execute quickly. In May 2025 Anurag wrote that the team moves with speed, intensity, and purpose.
Ownership. The careers page says people own outcomes, and that the company’s success and a person’s success are the same thing.
Where. The headquarters is a SoMa office in San Francisco. Open roles are remote in the United States or Canada, or based at that office. Bay Area employees get commuter benefits, and remote employees get a home office stipend.
Time off. Roles list 4 weeks of vacation and 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for every parent. The careers page also lists 12 sick days a year and the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day off.
Pay. The careers page says compensation includes equity with an extended exercise window. Roles list medical coverage paid in full, and dental and vision paid at 99% for the employee and one dependent.
New visa sponsorship is generally not available. Render may transfer an existing visa at its discretion.
Hodinkee runs its infrastructure on Render, and OpenAI runs a docs agent there
OpenAIIts developer-experience team runs a docs agent on Render Workflows.
HodinkeeHodinkee says it runs its whole infrastructure on Render, at a cost 56% lower than Heroku.
Base44Its founder says a lean team ships AI features faster on Render, and that the platform has scaled with them.HIPAA-enabled workspaces launched in June 2025. A team can sign the HIPAA agreement in the dashboard.
Render Sandboxes launched in public beta on November 4, 2026. Each one is an isolated computer for an agent. A customer pays for CPU only while the agent is using it.
What people tell Jack
“Render is the cloud I’d actually want to use, built by engineers who clearly sweat every detail.”
Open roles
Render has 35 open roles on its careers page. 35 list the US and 11 list Canada. A role can list more than one place. Pick a place and a team to see the roles and Jack’s read.
Jack’s read for engineering
20 open roles
- Michael Greer says he grew Discord’s product engineering team from 12 to 160 before leaving in 2022.
- Open roles cover compute, networking, Postgres, object storage, security, and bare-metal infrastructure.
- Anurag told CNBC that Render runs on AWS and Google Cloud. He said Render is testing its own servers.
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Jack’s read for product and design
4 open roles
- The open roles are staff product managers for data and storage and for agent observability, plus a staff product designer and a design systems lead.
Jack’s read for marketing
5 open roles
- Eli Staykova was chief marketing officer at Pulumi before joining in May 2025.
- The open marketing roles are remote in the United States. They cover developer programs, developer relations, content, and startup marketing.
Jack’s read for sales
2 open roles
- Sam Taylor says he grew Loom’s revenue organization from 10 to 80 people.
- Shuting Zhang covered sales until March 2026. Both open sales roles are remote in the United States.
Jack’s read for finance and operations
3 open roles
- Shuting Zhang leads finance and operations.
- The open data scientist and analytics engineer roles sit with this team. So does the head of strategic partnerships.
Jack’s read for people
1 open role
- The open role is a talent operations manager, remote in the United States. Shuting Zhang covered people until July 2026.
New roles reached four in the weeks of September 14 and November 2
New roles each week worldwide, from the week of August 3 to the week of November 2, 2026. The counts come from our daily checks of its careers page. The first week of checks is left out, because it counted roles already open.
Closed roles22 since July 27, when our checks began
The most recent, as of November 8, 2026.
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Jack & Jill isn’t Render’s recruiter. The open roles come straight from Render’s public careers page and refresh through the day. Company facts come from Render’s own announcements and named press, linked on each card, and were last checked on November 8, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.