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Senior Technical Recruiter, Engineering

Backend Developer • Remote • Full-time • 📍 Remote: United States

You'll play a key role in shaping Render's future by attracting and hiring top-tier technical talent — building and refining the hiring engine, guiding hiring managers, and providing strategic leadership to meet ambitious hiring goals.

Responsibilities

  • Build a deep understanding of the business, culture, and hiring needs to provide strategic recruitment support across teams
  • Lead the full recruitment lifecycle, from sourcing to offer and close
  • Partner with hiring managers to define job descriptions, candidate requirements, and structured interview processes
  • Act as a trusted advisor to hiring teams, offering insights, best practices, and data-driven recommendations
  • Manage executive relationships and provide proactive hiring solutions that align with business goals
  • Own sourcing strategies for passive talent pipelines in engineering domains
  • Mentor and guide hiring teams on best practices for interviewing, candidate assessment, and decision-making
  • Design, implement, and optimize recruitment programs to enhance efficiency, scalability, and candidate experience

Requirements

  • 7+ years of full-lifecycle recruiting experience, particularly supporting Engineering roles within early-stage, high-growth tech companies
  • Strong data-driven decision-making skills, using recruiting metrics to inform strategy
  • Proven ability to solve complex hiring challenges, facilitate decision-making, and coach teams
  • Experience managing high-impact roles while maintaining effective organization and stakeholder management

Nice to have

  • Extensive knowledge and proven success in technical hiring, especially in engineering roles
  • A solutions-oriented mindset with examples of driving innovative recruiting strategies
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with examples of influencing outcomes and forming trusted partnerships
  • A commitment to building inclusive and diverse teams
  • Experience conducting market research and competitive intelligence to guide recruiting initiatives
  • Comfort operating in gray areas, using data and intuition to navigate ambiguity

Soft skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, tailoring messages to different audiencesStrong negotiation skills and in-depth knowledge of the talent marketThrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manages competing prioritiesFosters trust-based relationships with candidates

What we offer

  • 4 weeks of paid vacation
  • 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave
  • Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401(k) plans
  • 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage (employee + one dependent)
  • FSA and HSA options
  • Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, and hobbies
  • Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy
  • Commuter benefits (Bay Area) and home office stipend for remote employees
  • Continuous learning benefits and support

About the company

Render builds the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications, used by more than 6 million developers worldwide. In February 2026 the company closed an additional $100M Series C round, bringing total funding to $257M, to accelerate its vision of cloud infrastructure that is both powerful and intuitive.

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