Senior/Staff Data Engineer

About the role

Render is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Engineer to lead the technical direction of its data platform, building reliable pipelines and infrastructure that power analytics, data science, and operational decision‑making.

Key responsibilities

• Own the Data Platform Engineering architecture, set technical direction, and deliver production‑grade systems.
• Build and operate trusted data pipelines, including ingestion services, testing, logging, alerting and observability.
• Manage the orchestration platform, overseeing workflow execution, worker infrastructure and reliability.
• Improve BigQuery warehouse performance, cost efficiency, permissions tooling and governance.
• Develop cloud services, APIs and event‑driven ingestion using infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform).
• Establish engineering standards for version control, CI/CD, testing and documentation.
• Partner with analytics engineers, scientists, engineering, IT and business teams to clarify requirements and communicate trade‑offs.
• Support data science, analytics and AI workflows by preparing model‑ready datasets and integrating LLM pipelines.
• Mentor data engineers through code reviews, pairing and design feedback.

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering or a related technical field.
• Proven ability to set direction, drive architecture and deliver complex data systems.
• Strong communication and cross‑functional collaboration skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.

Required skills

• Deep expertise with modern cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake).
• Strong Python and SQL development skills.
• Experience with orchestration platforms such as Prefect, Airflow or Dagster.
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform or equivalent IaC tools.
• Building cloud APIs, event‑driven ingestion services and CI/CD pipelines.
• Production engineering practices: testing, logging, alerting, observability.

What we offer

• 4 weeks paid vacation and 14 weeks fully paid parental leave.
• Long‑term disability, life insurance and 401(k) plans.
• 100% employer‑paid medical coverage; 99% dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.