dbt Labs is a remote-first company with a globally distributed team. This role is open to folks based anywhere in the United States.

dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes a diversity of perspectives, people, and backgrounds regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. We feel strongly that whether or not your experience exactly fits the job description, your passion and skills will stand out and set you apart even if your career has taken some twists and turns. If you are on the fence about whether you meet our requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway! Please reach out to us directly at recruiting@dbtlabs.com if you need assistance or accommodation due to disability.

About Us

dbt Labs was founded in 2016 to empower analysts to create and disseminate organizational knowledge. Since then, we’ve grown to become one of the most respected brands in the analytics industry. Our product, dbt, is used by thousands of companies.

Who we are

At dbt Labs, we have developed strong opinions on how companies should practice analytics.

Specifically, we believe that:

– Code, not graphical user interfaces, is the best abstraction to express complex analytic logic
– Data analysts should adopt similar practices and tools to software developers
– Critical analytics infrastructure should be controlled by its users as open source software
– Analytic code itself — not just analytics tools — will increasingly be open source

It turns out that a lot of other people believe this too! Today there are 9,000 companies using dbt every week, 25,000 practitioners in the dbt Community Slack, and 1,800 companies paying for dbt Cloud. Our customers include JetBlue, Hubspot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. dbt is synonymous with the practice of analytics engineering, defining an entire industry. We’re backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. We recently raised our series D!

We are looking for a Software Engineer to work on distributed systems at scale. The work that you’ll be doing in this role will be high-impact, challenging, and highly visible. The Runtime team is building the next generation system that will power dbt execution for our customers, community, and internal stakeholders.

In this role, you can expect to:

Collaborate with other, internal teams to create and iterate on the runtime platform to create a highly reliable, highly-available, low-latency, runtime platform
Work with variety of programming languages, systems, and technologies, including: Python, Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, and AWS
Have an outsized impact by owning one or multiple subsystems of the runtime platform

Qualifications:

Have 2-5 years experience as a software engineer
Minimum requirement of Bachelors degree in related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.) OR
Completed enrollment in engineering related bootcamp

You’re a good fit if you:

Have strong fundamentals in a variety of software development paradigms (e.g. object oriented, functional)
Have experience working on a distributed team
Understand how to make tradeoffs to ship useful features today without sacrificing long-term quality
Are able to take concepts and quickly turn them into actionable solutions
Are not afraid of big problems and are able to break them down into smaller problems
Enjoy pairing with other developers on a day-to-day basis

You’ll have an edge if you:

Have experience with Kubernetes and distributed systems of large scale
Have experience with pair programing

Compensation and Benefits:

Salary: $130,000-$150,000
Equity Stake
Benefits: Unlimited vacation, 401k w/ 3% guaranteed contribution, excellent healthcare, and paid parental leave

What to expect in the hiring process:
An introductory call with a member of our People Ops team
A technical screen and meeting with the Hiring Manager
A panel interview including multiple members of the Engineering Team
A final interview with the CEO