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Senior Software Engineer

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Job Description

Job Overview

dbt Labs is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to help build and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure services that power their analytics engineering platform. This role involves designing and implementing foundational services to enhance product capabilities, performance, and scalability, while collaborating across multiple teams to solve complex technical challenges and mentor junior engineers.

Technical Requirements

Required Skills
  • • Python
  • • Django
  • • API design
  • • system architecture
  • • database management
Preferred Skills
  • • Rust
  • • Go
  • • Node.js
  • • Java
  • • Spring
Experience Level

6+ years of experience as a software engineer developing SaaS platforms and applications at scale

Responsibilities

  • • Design, build, and maintain backend services that scale with the growing customer base.
  • • Tackle ambiguous, open-ended problems 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.
  • • Work with cross-functional teams 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.

Technical Environment

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Benefits & Perks

  • • Unlimited PTO
  • • 401k with a 3% guaranteed contribution
  • • Excellent healthcare coverage
  • • Paid parental leave
  • • Wellness and home office stipends

Additional Information

Location
US - Remote
Type
Full-time
Compensation
143,000 - 192,000 USD

About dbt Labs

dbt Labs empowers data teams to build reliable, governed data pipelines—accelerating analytics and AI initiatives with speed and confidence.

Company Size
unknown
Categories
AI Data Analytics Data Engineering