Senior Platform Engineer (Networking)

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About Us

dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, helping data teams transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights. Since 2016, we’ve grown from an open source project into the leading analytics engineering platform, now used by over 50,000 teams every week.

As of February 2025, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Cloud customers, including JetBlue, HubSpot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter.

At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners:

• Code-based data transformations unlock transparency, flexibility, and collaboration.
• Analysts should adopt software engineering best practices to build trusted data products.
• Core analytics infrastructure should be open source and user-controlled.
• Analytic code—not just tools—should be shared and community-driven.

dbt is now synonymous with analytics engineering, defining the modern data stack and serving as the data control plane for enterprise teams around the world. And we’re just getting started. We’re growing fast and building a team of passionate, curious people across the globe. Learn more about what makes us special by checking out our values.

Position Overview

As a Senior Platform Engineer in the networking space, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing our cloud network infrastructure. This is an opportunity to establish the practice of network engineering as you help our Infrastructure team support and expand our flagship dbt Cloud offering in AWS and Azure, with possibilities of further expansion.

The role will include designing resilient network architectures with an eye for availability, scalability, and security. Challenges include bringing flexible network architecture to life that supports both single and multi-tenanted deployments… and perhaps most importantly our new cell-based architecture.

You’ll join (and be supported by!) the Ops Platform department’s “Compute, Network, and Storage” team, but also work closely with our Multi Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineering teams.

Responsibilities

In this role, you can expect to:

• Help us operate our network, including troubleshooting and monitoring (with the help of our SRE team). Promptly diagnose and resolve issues.
• Design network architecture - streamline and improve existing systems while also planning for the future as we expand our tenancy and cloud offerings.
• Review the network needs of developer teams as they develop new features and services - provide subject matter expertise.
• Configure and managing Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), routing, network security services (collaborating with our Security Engineering team), load balancing, DNS, and more.
• Reduce toil by automating standard operational tasks - and leveling up performance and reliability.
• Come up with novel solutions to allow our clients to securely connect their Data Warehouses to dbt Cloud - potentially regardless of where either is hosted. Expand our already robust PrivateLink offerings.
• Improve our documentation for network configurations, processes, diagrams, and runbooks.

Requirements

You are a good fit if you have:

• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team.
• A desire to work collaboratively with product engineering and other stakeholders, including security, field engineering, customer support, and more!
• Expertise in all layers of the OSI model, fundamental networking protocols (TCP, UDP, DHCP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, etc), VPNs, IPv4 and IPv6, public and private DNS management, etc.
• Proxy, reverse proxy, and load balancer experience.
• Experience or interest in operating at least some of the tools in our stack, including nginx, Istio, Envoy, AWS and Azure Load Balancer offerings, AWS Transit Gateway or Azure vWan/vHub, Route 53, Network Policy (currently Calico), WAF (Signal Sciences).
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