Staff Software Engineer

Job Overview

dbt Labs is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of scalable applications and services for their analytics engineering platform. The role involves working across teams to enhance the platform's scalability, security, and usability, directly impacting data practitioners and enabling better decision-making through trusted data. The Staff Engineer will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and drive best practices to elevate engineering excellence across the company.

Technical Requirements

Responsibilities

• • Design, build, and maintain full stack applications that scale with our growing customer base.
• • Lead technical architecture discussions, ensuring the platform is performant, maintainable, and secure.
• • 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.
• • Work closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Security teams to deliver well-architected solutions.
• • Define and drive best practices in testing, observability, and system reliability.
• • Mentor engineers across the company, fostering technical growth and collaboration.
• • Champion a culture of technical excellence and innovation, influencing engineering direction across multiple teams or domains.

Technical Environment

Benefits & Perks

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