Software Engineer - Dagster Labs

Position Overview

Dagster Labs is seeking a driven Software Engineer to join their engineering team. This role is ideal for individuals who thrive at the intersection of product development, customer success, and user adoption. You will contribute to building and enhancing the Dagster platform, empowering organizations to create scalable and productive data platforms. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact by solving real-world problems and delivering meaningful solutions for users and customers.

About Us

Dagster Labs is an early-stage, well-funded startup with a proven track record of shipping open-source software with global adoption. We prioritize respectful, clear, and complete communication and expect our team to be creative, curious, effective, and empathetic. We believe that the right tools and abstractions drive both technological and organizational transformation, with a focus on user needs in our decision-making. All our open-source work is done publicly, allowing insight into our collaboration and problem-solving processes via GitHub.

About the Role

This is a full-time, competitively paid position with benefits. We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis, and we are hiring fully remote candidates within the U.S. Employees receive a remote work stipend for home office equipment and comfort. For fully remote employees who prefer not to work from home, we will cover the cost of a coworking or office space.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality backend features, guides, and integrations to facilitate smooth customer adoption of Dagster, including tools for migrations, onboarding, and integrations with databases, ETL tools, and cloud services.
• Implement small to medium enhancements in the React UI to support new backend features, or collaborate with frontend engineers on large interactions between frontend and backend.
• Engage directly with users to understand challenges and translate feedback into actionable improvements.
• Partner with product and go-to-market teams to deliver practical solutions aligned with real-world requirements.
• Implement features, experiments, and best practices to lower barriers for new users, fostering their growth into confident long-term users and enterprise adopters.
• Proactively identify and address opportunities for enhancement in code quality, user documentation, or overall performance, and lead initiatives for these improvements.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant software development experience.
• Proficiency in Python or a similar high-level programming language.
• Working familiarity with frontend development.
• Expertise across the full software development lifecycle (planning, delivery, iteration).
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Proven effectiveness in contributing to and executing as part of a team.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience with Dagster or related data orchestrators.
• Experience with data engineering, MLOps, or AI pipelines (e.g., ETL tools, Spark, MLflow, Hugging Face).
• Experience with data platforms, infrastructure as code, and Docker-based deployment patterns.
• Experience with growth-oriented engineering initiatives.
• Experience in a high-functioning engineering organization working on large-scale distributed systems or B2B SaaS applications.
• Passion for engaging directly with users for research and support.

Employment Type

Full-time

Location Type

Distributed / Remote (U.S. only)

Salary

Competitive

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