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Senior Software Engineer II

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Job Description

Job Overview

dbt Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to help build and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure services for their analytics engineering platform. The role involves collaborating with multiple teams to enhance product capabilities, performance, and scalability, ultimately benefiting data practitioners around the world. The position requires a strategic thinker who can tackle complex technical challenges and mentor junior engineers.

Technical Requirements

Required Skills
  • • Python
  • • Django
  • • API design
  • • system architecture
  • • database management
Preferred Skills
  • • Rust
  • • Typescript
  • • Postgres
  • • Kubernetes
  • • AWS
  • • Terraform
  • • Datadog
Experience Level

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

Responsibilities

  • • Design, build, and maintain services that scale with the 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.

Technical Environment

Languages
Frameworks
Tools & Technologies

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
170,000 - 231,000 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