Director of Expansion and Growth Engineering

Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

At Render, we are building a powerful and user-friendly cloud platform designed to simplify hosting for developers and teams. Our platform supports a wide range of applications, from static sites to complex multi-service architectures, offering the flexibility of traditional cloud providers without the associated complexity and maintenance challenges. This allows our users to focus on product development rather than server management.

Our team is a diverse and talented group dedicated to addressing universal challenges in software development. We prioritize rapid iteration, user experience, craft, and reliability, driving continuous improvement. With over 2.5 million developers and rapid monthly growth, our customers trust Render for its reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure, fully managed datastores, and advanced security features.

In January 2025, Render secured $80 million in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $157 million. This investment will accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive, catering to the evolving needs of the AI era.

About the Role

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

You will lead the team in identifying and executing 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 is a unique opportunity to drive business impact through both top-of-funnel initiatives and deep customer partnerships, while simultaneously building out a critical department and shaping our engineering culture.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of experience 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 that values business impact and velocity.
• Demonstrated success managing high-performing engineering teams, including coaching managers and engineers through scale.
• Effective cross-functional collaborator capable of translating 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.
• Experience with mone... (content truncated)

Applying to Render

We seek candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we aim for individual and collective improvement. 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. We understand that not all successful candidates will meet every listed requirement.

Our interview process is tailored to each role, and we value the candidate experience as highly as our customer experience. We aim for your conversations with us to be thoughtful, illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.