Senior Software Engineer II

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dbt Labs is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer II to contribute to the development and maintenance of scalable, reliable, and secure services powering their platform. This role involves working across teams to design and implement foundational services that enhance product capabilities, performance, and scalability, directly supporting the mission of enabling data practitioners to build trusted data products.

About Us

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 and more than 5,400 dbt Cloud customers, dbt Labs is backed by top investors and committed to the belief that code-based data transformations, software engineering best practices for analysts, open-source core infrastructure, and community-driven analytic code are essential for empowering data practitioners.

About the Role

The Senior Software Engineer II will collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, Product Design, and Infrastructure teams to solve complex technical challenges, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to engineering best practices. The role focuses on improving the scalability, security, and usability of the platform for thousands of data practitioners.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain services that scale with a 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

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