Senior/Staff Analytics Engineer

Render; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation 2026+

Parental leave 14 weeks

Disability & life insurance

Medical coverage 100%

Dental/vision coverage for dependents

Lifestyle stipend

Cell phone/internet subsidy

Commuter benefits (Bay Area)

Home office stipend

Job summary

Render is hiring a Senior/Staff Analytics Engineer to lead the Analytics Engineering platform. You will partner with analysts, data scientists, and product teams to translate domain knowledge into scalable data models and semantic layers for trusted metrics and AI-assisted analyses.

You will own the architecture, establish standards, and mentor teams to improve data quality, performance, and developer experience across the data stack.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Analytics Engineering or Data Engineering
• Hands-on dbt production experience (≥3 years)
• Expert SQL and dimensional modeling (Kimball)
• Experience building semantic/context layers for self-service analytics
• Strong communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Own our Analytics Engineering architecture and guide long-term evolution of the platform
• Build trusted, reusable data models (dbt) for metrics across teams
• Establish engineering standards for data modeling, testing, docs, version control, CI/CD
• Enable self-service analytics by designing semantic/context layers for humans and AI
• Partner with analysts/scientists to translate domain logic into scalable warehouse models
• Improve reliability and efficiency with data quality and cost-aware warehouse design
• Mentor analysts and engineers on dbt, dimensional modeling, and best practices

Skills

SQL proficiency

Data modeling

Communication

Mentoring

Self-service analytics

Tools

dbt

BigQuery

Databricks

Snowflake

CI/CD

Git

Job description

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 project, not infrastructure.

Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephem 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 7 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $260M, 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

We're looking for a Senior/Staff Analytics Engineer to join our growing Data team and lead the evolution of our Analytics Engineering platform. As Render scales, you'll build the foundations that turn raw data into trusted, reusable models for analytics, executive reporting, and AI-assisted decision-making.

In this role, you'll partner closely with analysts, scientists, data engineers, and teams across Product, Engineering, Growth, Go-to-Market, Finance, and other business functions. Analysts and scientists will bring domain expertise and own business logic within their areas; you'll own the technical architecture, modeling standards, and engineering practices that help that work scale reliably.

As a Senior/Staff-level individual contributor, you'll set the technical direction for Analytics Engineering at Render-strengthening data quality, improving the developer experience, and building semantic and context layers that make data easier to discover and use. You'll help teams move faster with consistent metrics and maintainable models they can trust.

What You'll Do

• Own our Analytics Engineering architecture. Guide the long-term evolution of Render's Analytics Engineering platform, strengthening foundational models so our data remains trusted, scalable, and ready for AI-assisted analytics.

• Build trusted, reusable data models. Design, build, and maintain governed dbt models that serve as authoritative sources for business-critical metrics across Product, Engineering, Growth, Go-to-Market, Finance, and other teams.

• Establish engineering standards. Define and improve practices for data modeling, testing, documentation, version control, CI/CD, and code review. Review high-impact dbt changes and reduce technical debt across the analytics codebase.

• Enable self-service and AI-assisted analytics. Design and maintain semantic and context layers that make metrics consistent, data discoverable, and analysis reliable for both people and AI tools.

• Partner closely with analysts and scientists. Help analysts and scientists translate domain-specific business logic into scalable, maintainable warehouse models, moving shared logic out of individual reports and dashboards and into governed datasets.

• Improve reliability and efficiency. Partner with Data Engineering to strengthen source data quality, warehouse architecture, and BigQuery performance and cost efficiency.

• Raise the bar for Analytics Engineering. Mentor analysts, scientists, and analytics engineers on dbt development, dimensional modeling, and engineering best practices, and help teams adopt shared standards.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related technical field, including at least 3 years of hands-on experience running dbt in production.

• Expert-level SQL skills and a track record of designing and owning scalable Kimball dimensional models.

• Deep expertise in 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 that support self-service analytics for humans and AI agents across multiple business domains.

• Strong understanding of modern cloud data warehouse architecture, performance optimization, and cost efficiency, with experience in platforms such as BigQuery, Databricks, or Snowflake.

• A track record of establishing technical standards, influencing engineering practices without formal authority, and improving reliability while reducing technical debt.

• Proven ability to partner closely with analysts, scientists, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, maintainable data models.

• Excellent communication skills. You can explain complex technical concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences and build alignment across teams.

• Experience building data models that connect 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 to accelerate data modeling, testing, documentation, or exploration.

Nice-to-Haves

• Hands-on experience with Render's analytics stack, including BigQuery, Segment, dbt, and analytics tools such as Metabase or Mixpanel.

• Experience with developer-focused, product-led, sales-led, or usage-based businesses.

• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, PaaS, developer tooling, or other technically complex products.

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.

This position is generally not eligible for new visasponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.

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!

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