2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$195k - $273k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the long-term architecture and technical direction of Render’s Analytics Engineering platform.
- Design, build, and maintain governed dbt models serving as authoritative sources for business-critical metrics.
- Define and improve standards for data modeling, testing, documentation, version control, CI/CD, code review, data contracts, lineage, and governance.
- Design and maintain semantic and context layers supporting consistent metrics, data discovery, and AI-assisted analytics.
- Partner with analysts, scientists, data engineers, and business stakeholders to translate domain logic into scalable warehouse models.
- Improve source data quality, warehouse architecture, BigQuery performance, and cost efficiency.
- Mentor analysts, scientists, and analytics engineers on dbt, dimensional modeling, and engineering practices.
- Establish technical standards, influence engineering practices without formal authority, and reduce technical debt.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related technical field, including at least 3 years of hands-on dbt production experience.
- Expert-level SQL skills and experience designing and owning scalable Kimball dimensional models.
- Deep knowledge of modern Analytics Engineering practices, including Git, testing, CI/CD, documentation, data contracts, lineage, and governance.
- Experience building semantic and context layers, trusted metrics, and warehouse architectures for self-service analytics used by people and AI agents.
- Experience with modern cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Databricks, or Snowflake, including performance optimization and cost efficiency.
- Experience setting technical standards, improving reliability, and reducing technical debt.
- Proven ability to collaborate with analysts, scientists, and business stakeholders to develop maintainable data models.
- Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience connecting product usage, acquisition, CRM, and financial data across the customer lifecycle.
- Experience using AI-assisted coding or analytics tools such as Codex, Cursor, or Claude Code.
- Experience with Render’s analytics stack, including BigQuery, Segment, dbt, Metabase, or Mixpanel, is preferred.
- Experience with developer-focused, product-led, sales-led, or usage-based businesses is preferred.
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, PaaS, developer tooling, or technically complex products is preferred.
Benefits
- 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents, with return-to-work support.
- Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
- Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, with FSA and HSA options.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, and related needs.
- Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
- Commuter benefits for Bay Area employees and home office stipends for remote employees.
- Continuous learning benefits and related support.
About Render
Render provides a developer-focused cloud platform to deploy and run full‑stack applications, including web services, static sites, Postgres, background workers, and cron jobs. It offers persistent compute with autoscaling, built‑in orchestration, and observability, sold as a usage‑based managed PaaS for startups and software teams. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.