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Customer Engineer focusing on the technical success and expansion of Render's AI-native customers. Engage in technical conversations, oversee onboarding, and ensure customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the named technical point of contact for a portfolio of Render's highest-value customers—primarily AI-native startups, technology companies, and scaled SaaS businesses
- Lead structured onboarding for new customers: architecture reviews, environment setup, team enablement, and establishing production readiness standards from day one
- Proactively monitor customer health signals—service stability, resource utilization, deployment frequency, support ticket patterns—and intervene early to prevent performance degradation and churn
- Conduct regular technical check-ins and executive business reviews (EBRs/QBRs) with engineering and infrastructure leaders, translating platform usage data into business-relevant insights
- Develop deep familiarity with each customer's architecture and growth trajectory to identify natural expansion opportunities: additional services, higher compute tiers, Postgres scaling, team seat growth, and new workload types
- Collaborate with Account Executives to surface expansion signals, build joint account plans, and execute upsell and cross-sell motions grounded in genuine technical advice
- Drive adoption of new Render capabilities—especially those relevant to AI/ML workloads such as autoscaling for inference, high-throughput background job pipelines, and preview environments
- Help customers design and optimize infrastructure for AI-native applications: LLM API integrations, vector database connections, async inference queues, streaming endpoints, and multi-service orchestration
- Capture and escalate structured product feedback from customers, creating a feedback loop that shapes the roadmap based on what matters most to Render's top accounts
- Work with Support and Engineering on complex escalations, acting as the customer's technical advocate to drive timely resolution while maintaining trust and transparency
Requirements:
- Has 8+ years in a post-sales technical role—Customer Engineer, Technical Account Manager, Solutions Architect (post-sales), or Customer Success Engineer—at a cloud infrastructure, developer tools, or SaaS company
- Has strong hands-on understanding of cloud application architecture: web services, background workers, databases, caching, networking, and container deployments—enough to review a customer's setup and offer substantive guidance
- Has demonstrated experience working with AI-native or AI-adjacent companies, with familiarity in LLM API integration patterns, vector search, and the infrastructure requirements of production AI applications
- Has proven commercial acumen: identifying expansion opportunities, contributing to renewal and upsell motions, and tracking account health metrics including NRR and time-to-value
- Is an exceptional communicator—can explain a complex infrastructure tradeoff to a CTO and send a clear Slack message to a developer debugging a deployment with equal ease
- Can manage a portfolio of technically complex accounts simultaneously, maintaining proactive cadences without letting reactive firefighting dominate their time
- Is collaborative by instinct: works well with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Support, and understands that customer success is a team sport.
Benefits:
- This opportunity is also eligible for equity with early-exercise options and extended exercise windows.
- 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.
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