Staff Data Engineer shaping Render’s cloud data platform for AI-native applications. Building reliable pipelines, BigQuery infrastructure, orchestration, and production AI workflows.
Responsibilities
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.
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