Senior/Staff Analytics Engineer

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About the role

  • Staff Analytics Engineer leading analytics architecture, dbt models, and semantic layers at Render. Building trusted data foundations for AI-assisted decision-making across the developer cloud platform.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the evolution of Render’s Analytics Engineering platform
  • Design, build, and maintain governed dbt models as authoritative sources for business-critical metrics
  • Define and improve data modeling, testing, documentation, version control, CI/CD, and code review practices
  • Review high-impact dbt changes and reduce technical debt across the analytics codebase
  • Design and maintain semantic and context layers for consistent metrics, data discovery, and reliable analysis by people and AI tools
  • Partner with analysts, scientists, data engineers, and teams across Product, Engineering, Growth, Go-to-Market, Finance, and other business functions
  • Translate domain-specific business logic into scalable, maintainable warehouse models
  • Partner with Data Engineering to improve source data quality, warehouse architecture, BigQuery performance, and cost efficiency
  • Mentor analysts, scientists, and analytics engineers on dbt development, dimensional modeling, and engineering best practices
  • Set technical direction and shared standards for Analytics Engineering at Render

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related technical field
  • At least 3 years of hands-on experience running dbt in production
  • Expert-level SQL skills
  • Track record of designing and owning scalable Kimball dimensional models
  • Deep expertise in 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 for humans and AI agents
  • Strong understanding of modern cloud data warehouse architecture, performance optimization, and cost efficiency
  • Experience with BigQuery, Databricks, or Snowflake
  • Track record of establishing technical standards, influencing engineering practices without formal authority, and improving reliability while reducing technical debt
  • Ability to partner with analysts, scientists, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, maintainable data models
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience building data models 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
  • Applicants requiring visa sponsorship must receive business authorization; the position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship
  • Nice-to-haves: experience with BigQuery, Segment, dbt, Metabase, or Mixpanel; developer-focused, product-led, sales-led, or usage-based businesses; cloud infrastructure, PaaS, developer tooling, or technically complex products

Benefits

  • 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
  • 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent
  • FSAs and HSAs
  • 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 and related support
  • Equity offered

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$195,000 - $273,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

BigQueryCloudSQLGo

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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