Director of Engineering, Expansion & Growth

At Render, we're dedicated to building a powerful and user-friendly cloud that simplifies hosting for every developer and team. Our platform supports a wide range of applications, from simple static sites to complex multi-service architectures. By offering the flexibility of traditional cloud providers without their associated complexity and maintenance challenges, we enable our users to concentrate on product development instead of managing servers.

Our team is a diverse and talented group addressing universal challenges of software development. We prioritize rapid iteration while maintaining a strong focus on user experience, craft, and reliability. This commitment drives us to improve continually. Our organic, product-led growth has attracted over 2.5 million developers, with rapid growth of new developers signing up every month. Our customers trust Render for our reliable and scalable cloud with enterprise-grade capabilities, fully managed datastores, and advanced security and compliance features.

In January 2025, we reached a significant milestone by raising $80 million in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $157M. This investment enables us to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive, while catering to the evolving needs of the AI era.

Applying to Render:

We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.

We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.

Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.

About the Role
As Director of Expansion and Growth Engineering at Render, you’ll lead the engineering teams responsible for scaling our core product to support key customers and driving monetization through experimentation-led growth. This role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, sales, and marketing—owning the technical strategy and execution behind high impact initiatives that accelerate adoption and expand our footprint in the mid-market and enterprise segments.

You’ll lead the team to identify and execute on high impact opportunities for scaling enterprise usage. This includes building new services, improving observability and security tooling, and collaborating with customers and sales to better serve our largest and most strategic accounts.

This role is a rare opportunity to drive business impact through both the top of the funnel and deep customer partnerships, while building out a critical department and engineering culture as a whole.

We’re Looking For Someone Who has: 

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering teams across product growth, infrastructure, or platform domains

• Experience leading zero to one engineering efforts—from defining technical direction to launching and iterating on new product capabilities

• Proven ability to build an engineering culture valuing business impact and velocity, and collaborate with peers and executive leadership

• Demonstrated success managing high-performing engineering teams, including coaching managers and engineers through scale

• Effective cross-functional collaborator who can translate product goals into reliable, efficient systems

• Deep understanding of the developer experience, systems performance, and the tradeoffs involved in building for scale and usability
  

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with distributed systems, monetization, and billing teams

• Familiarity with infrastructure platforms, developer tools, or SaaS 

• Background in developer tooling and platforms as a service 

• Our openings span more than one career level. The starting salary for this role is between $250,000 and $340,000 USD. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, and market demands.

• The opportunity is also eligible for equity with early exercise options and extended exercise windows.

• 4 weeks of paid vacation, available from day one.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.

• 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 available as well.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental heath and therapy, hobbies, etc.

• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.

• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.

• Continuous learning benefits & related support.

Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product, and our community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We encourage all who are interested to apply. We can't wait to hear from you!

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