Senior Software Engineer II

Position Overview

dbt Labs is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer II to join our team. This role focuses on building and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure services that power our analytics engineering platform. You will collaborate across multiple teams to design and implement foundational services and experiences that enhance our product's capabilities, performance, and scalability, directly contributing to our mission of empowering data practitioners worldwide.

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.

Our core beliefs:

• 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. We are growing fast and building a team of passionate, curious people across the globe.

About the Role

In this role, you will work across multiple teams to design and implement foundational services and experiences that enhance our product's capabilities, performance, and scalability. You will serve the most data-driven technology organizations in the world, enabling them to build data products that ultimately enable better decision-making using trusted, well-governed data. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, Product Design, and Infrastructure teams to solve complex technical challenges, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to best practices that drive engineering excellence.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain services that scale with our growing customer base.
• Tackle ambiguous, open-ended problems with strategic thinking, balancing technical constraints with user needs and product goals.
• Build services, APIs, and experiences that support user delight, quality, high availability, and performance.
• Champion a culture of technical excellence and innovation, influencing engineering direction within the team.
• Work 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 such as Python, Rust, Typescript, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and Datadog.

Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Education: Minimum requirement of Bachelor's Degree in a related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.) OR completed enrollment in an engineering-related bootcamp.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ 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.

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