Senior/Staff Analytics Engineer

The role

You will lead the evolution of the Analytics Engineering platform by building foundational data models. You will set technical direction, establish engineering standards, and partner with various business functions to enable self-service and AI-assisted analytics.

What you will do

• Own the Analytics Engineering architecture.
• Build trusted, reusable dbt data models.
• Establish engineering standards for modeling, testing, and CI/CD.
• Enable self-service and AI-assisted analytics through semantic and context layers.
• Partner with analysts and scientists to translate business logic into warehouse models.
• Improve reliability and efficiency of source data and BigQuery performance.
• Mentor analysts, scientists, and analytics engineers on best practices.

Required qualifications

• 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 and warehouse architectures.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud data warehouse architecture, performance optimization, and cost efficiency.
• Experience with platforms such as BigQuery, Databricks, or Snowflake.
• Track record of establishing technical standards and influencing engineering practices.
• Ability to partner with analysts, scientists, and business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience building data models connecting product usage, acquisition, CRM, and financial data.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Render’s analytics stack, including BigQuery, Segment, dbt, and analytics tools such as Metabase or Mixpanel.
• Experience with developer-focused, product-led, sales-led, or usage-based businesses.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, PaaS, developer tooling, or other technically complex products.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 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.

Before you apply

• This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship.
• At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers.
• Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.

About the company

Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Their platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide.