dbt Labs
Senior Platform Engineer ll, Cloud Networking
Job Summary
The role involves designing, implementing, and managing cloud network infrastructure for dbt Labs, supporting AWS and Azure environments. The engineer will troubleshoot, monitor, and improve network architectures, ensuring scalability, security, and availability. Collaboration with cross-functional teams such as Security Engineering and Developer teams is key, along with automating operational tasks and expanding network offerings like PrivateLink. Candidates should have experience in network protocols, cloud tools, scripting, and automation to support growth and secure client integrations.
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Job Description
About Us
dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, helping data teams transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights. Since 2016, we’ve grown from an open source project into the leading analytics engineering platform, now used by over 50,000 teams every week.
As of February 2025, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Cloud customers, including JetBlue, HubSpot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners:
As a Senior Platform Engineer in the networking space, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing our cloud network infrastructure. This is an opportunity to establish the practice of network engineering as you help our Infrastructure team support and expand our flagship dbt Cloud offering in AWS and Azure, with possibilities of further expansion.
The role will include designing resilient network architectures with an eye for availability, scalability, and security. Challenges include bringing flexible network architecture to life that supports both single and multi-tenanted deployments… and perhaps most importantly our new cell-based architecture.
You’ll join (and be supported by!) the Ops Platform department’s “Compute, Network, and Storage” team, but also work closely with our Multi Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineering teams.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Help us operate our network, including troubleshooting and monitoring (with the help of our SRE team). Promptly diagnose and resolve issues
- Design network architecture - streamline and improve existing systems while also planning for the future as we expand our tenancy and cloud offerings
- Review the network needs of developer teams as they develop new features and services - provide subject matter expertise
- Configure and managing Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), routing, network security services (collaborating with our Security Engineering team), load balancing, DNS, and more
- Reduce toil by automating standard operational tasks - and leveling up performance and reliability
- Come up with novel solutions to allow our clients to securely connect their Data Warehouses to dbt Cloud - potentially regardless of where either is hosted. Expand our already robust PrivateLink offerings.
- Improve our documentation for network configurations, processes, diagrams, and runbooks
You are a good fit if you have:
- Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
- A desire to work collaboratively with product engineering and other stakeholders, including security, field engineering, customer support, and more!
- Expertise in all layers of the OSI model, fundamental networking protocols (TCP, UDP, DHCP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, etc), VPNs, IPv4 and IPv6, public and private DNS management, etc
- Proxy, reverse proxy, and load balancer experience
- Experience or interest in operating at least some of the tools in our stack, including nginx, Istio, Envoy, AWS and Azure Load Balancer offerings, AWS Transit Gateway or Azure vWan/vHub, Route 53, Network Policy (currently Calico), WAF (Signal Sciences)
- Kubernetes networking / CNI experience, production experience implementing a service mesh and/or mTLS
- Ability to write and understand scripts and automation in the language of your choice - at dbt Labs you’ll encounter Python, Rust, Go, and Bash with Terraform for IaC
You'll have an edge if you have:
- Experience in multiple public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Terraform experience
- Experience defining an SLA and implementing metric collections and reporting for network products you’ve developed
Compensation & Benefits
Salary: We offer competitive compensation packages commensurate with experience, including salary, equity, and where applicable, performance-based pay. Our Talent Acquisition Team can answer questions around dbt Labs' total rewards during your interview process. In select locations (including Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and Seattle), an alternate range may apply, as specified below.
- The typical starting salary range for this role is: $154,000 - $186,300 USD
- The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed is $171,000 - $207,000 USD
Equity Stake
Benefits - dbt Labs offers:
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- Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
- 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
- Excellent healthcare
- Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness stipend
- Home office stipend, and more!
*Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal limitations
What to expect in the hiring process (all video interviews unless accommodations are needed):
- Interview with Talent Acquisition Partner
- Interview with Hiring Manager
- Team Interviews
- Final interview with one of our Values Carriers
dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. Even if your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply—we value potential just as much as a perfect resume.
Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page.
dbt Labs reserves the right to amend or withdraw the posting at any time. For employees outside the United States, dbt Labs offers a competitive benefits package. Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal or country limitations.
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