Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Signals

Position Overview

• Location Type: Onsite (Romania)
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

About dbt Labs: 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.

Cloud Signals Team: dbt Cloud, our rapidly growing SaaS platform, has ambitious goals to enhance its platform capabilities in the year ahead. We have formed a new team in Romania called Cloud Signals to build essential platform features like notifications, webhooks, and infrastructure-as-code integrations.

Role: As a newly formed team within dbt Labs, Cloud Signals needs hands on deck to establish our platform integration strategy. As dbt Cloud evolves and grows, this person will help design and implement new platform capabilities from the ground up, ensuring we provide robust integration points for our customers. This co-located team will work closely with customers and the broader engineering organization to deliver scalable solutions that enhance the dbt Cloud platform.

Responsibilities

• Evolve dbt’s architecture to keep up with our fast growing customer base and scaling needs
• Be a key contributor to the development of dbt Cloud and its terraform provider
• Be an advocate for software engineering best practices
• Develop a robust software framework for seamlessly developing application platform features into dbt Cloud.
• Collaborate closely with the OSS community, product teams, and other stakeholders.
• Mentor and support junior team members, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years experience as a software engineer, preferably in Rust
• Previous experience with SaaS products (SOA preferred)
• Minimum requirement of Bachelors degree in related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.)
• Excellent level of English, both written and spoken