Software Engineering Daily · Thursday, August 13, 2026
Anurag Goal, co-founder and CEO of Render, discussed his past experience at Stripe where 15-20% of the engineering team was dedicated to managing AWS infrastructure. He highlighted the increasing complexity and cost associated with managing cloud resources at scale, noting that even top engineering organizations faced these challenges.
“Yeah, so at all times when I was at Stripe around 15 to 20% of the engineering team was simply managing VMs on AWS and all the complexity around that, storage and networking and load balancing and it didn't really get easier.”
“And obviously as Stripe's scale grew, the complexity increased and you needed to continue to hire people to continue to help you scale and it just never stopped.”
“If they're running into this problem, clearly, you know, it's a problem that's gonna essentially impact everyone if they can't figure this thing out.”