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

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.