Senior Software Engineer

Position Overview

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• Job Type: Senior Software Engineer
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dbt Labs is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the development and maintenance of scalable, reliable, and secure services powering their platform. This role involves cross-team collaboration to design and implement foundational services and experiences that improve product capabilities, performance, and scalability. The work directly supports dbt Labs' mission of enabling data practitioners to build better data products.

About dbt Labs

dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, empowering data teams to transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights. Since 2016, they have grown into the leading analytics engineering platform, used by over 50,000 teams weekly. With over $100 million in ARR as of February 2025 and more than 5,400 dbt Cloud customers, dbt Labs is backed by prominent investors. Their core beliefs center on:

• Code-based data transformations for transparency, flexibility, and collaboration.
• Encouraging analysts to adopt software engineering best practices for building trusted data products.
• Advocating for open-source and user-controlled core analytics infrastructure.
• Promoting the sharing of analytic code and community-driven development.

dbt is recognized as the standard for analytics engineering, defining the modern data stack and serving as the data control plane for enterprise teams globally. The company is experiencing rapid growth and is building a global team of passionate and curious individuals.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services that scale with a growing customer base.
• Address ambiguous, open-ended problems through strategic thinking, balancing technical constraints with user needs and product goals.
• Build services, APIs, and experiences that enhance user delight, quality, high availability, and performance.
• Champion a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, UX, and Security, to deliver impactful solutions.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, mentor junior engineers, and participate in design and code reviews.
• Debug production issues and optimize system performance using observability tools.
• Work with technologies including Python, Rust, Typescript, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and Datadog.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Minimum requirement of a Bachelor's Degree in a related field (e.g., computer science, computer engineering) OR completed enrollment in an engineering-related bootcamp.
• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer developing SaaS platforms and applications at scale.
• Proven experience designing and scaling backend services.
• Strong understanding of API design, system architecture, and database management.
• Proficiency with backend languages and frameworks such as Python, Go, Rust, Django, Node.js, Java, Spring.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Proficiency in designing API-driven applications using REST.