Senior/Staff Data Engineer

🕒 September 18

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $195k - $273k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Render

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Logistics • SaaS

Render is a modern cloud platform for developers and teams that simplifies the process of building, deploying, and scaling applications. It offers a range of services including web services, static sites, cron jobs, background workers, PostgreSQL databases, and Redis management. Render's platform is designed for ease of use with features such as automatic deployments, load-based autoscaling, and infrastructure as code. It also provides robust security measures like DDoS protection and data privacy compliance. Render caters to a wide range of development stacks with support for various programming languages and Docker images, providing developers with a seamless environment to manage and scale their infrastructure. With a focus on speed, reliability, and collaboration, Render helps developers efficiently manage their applications and infrastructure from development to production.

📋 Description

• Set technical direction for core data systems, lead design decisions, and deliver reliable production systems • Partner with Data team leadership to shape the platform roadmap and evaluate architectural and build-versus-buy tradeoffs • Develop ingestion services, integrations, and pipelines that deliver accurate, timely data • Implement testing, logging, alerting, and observability across the platform • Own workflow execution, worker infrastructure, upgrades, and operational reliability for the orchestration platform • Improve deployment patterns while balancing performance, cost, and maintenance needs • Improve the BigQuery environment, including query performance, cost efficiency, permissions tooling, and governance • Partner with Analytics Engineering on warehouse architecture and scalable dbt model foundations • Develop APIs, event-driven ingestion, and reusable cloud services • Use infrastructure as code to create maintainable infrastructure, reusable modules, and predictable deployments • Improve version control, CI/CD, testing, documentation, and operational practices across the Data Platform • Collaborate with analytics engineers, analysts, scientists, Engineering, IT, Security, and business teams • Prepare model-ready datasets, make features available to downstream systems, and integrate AI and LLM workflows into production • Mentor data engineers through code review, pairing, design feedback, and coaching

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related technical field • Track record of setting direction, driving architecture, and delivering complex data systems across a team • Deep expertise in modern cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Databricks, or Snowflake, including data modeling, query performance, cost management, and access control • Strong Python and SQL skills • Hands-on experience building reliable ingestion and ELT pipelines and maintainable data models • Experience operating orchestration platforms such as Prefect, Airflow, or Dagster, including deployments, upgrades, workers, and operational reliability • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code, using Terraform or equivalent tools • Experience building cloud applications or backend services, including APIs, ingestion services, and event-driven workflows • Strong production engineering practices, including testing, logging, alerting, observability, version control, and CI/CD • Track record of mentoring engineers through coaching, code review, pairing, and design feedback • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills • Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Codex, Cursor, or Claude Code • This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; applicants requiring sponsorship must receive business authorization

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers equity • 4 weeks of paid vacation • 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents • Long-term disability insurance • Life insurance • 401K plans • 100% employer-paid medical coverage for you and a dependent • 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent • FSAs and HSAs available • 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 • Home office stipends for remote Renders • Continuous learning benefits & related support