Senior/Staff Analytics Engineer

Webhosting; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Render is seeking a Senior/Staff Analytics Engineer to join the Data team and lead the evolution of the Analytics Engineering platform. You will build trusted, reusable data models and semantic layers to support analytics, dashboards, and AI-driven decision making.

You will collaborate with analysts, data engineers, and product teams to ensure data quality, scalable warehousing, and consistent metrics across the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience building analytics platforms and data models for reporting and AI-assisted decision making.
• Strong understanding of data quality, governance, and transformation pipelines.
• Proficiency with modern cloud data warehouses and modeling standards.

Responsibilities

• Own the Analytics Engineering architecture and platform evolution.
• Build and maintain governed dbt models used across teams for metrics.

Skills

dbt

BigQuery

Data modeling

CI/CD

Data warehousing

Tools

dbt

BigQuery

Airflow

Job description

Remote Full-time Senior Product

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 product, not infrastructure.

Unlike complex hyperscalers or epithelial 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 aSenior/Staff Analytics Engineerto 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 aSenior/Staff-levelindividual 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.

Nice-to-Haves

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.

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.