dbt Labs
Senior Software Engineer
Job Summary
The role involves building and maintaining dbt Cloud clients, including IDE, CLI, and Low Code No Code platforms that are integrated with the dbt ecosystem. Candidates will work on backend and frontend components, ensuring performance, scalability, and feature development. The position emphasizes collaboration, quality standards, and understanding user needs, requiring experience in scalable full-stack applications using Python or Go. The team values industry knowledge, distributed work experience, and a focus on creating reliable, user-focused tools for analytics engineers.
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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:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Experience group. In this role, you will partner with the Engineering Team to create delightful and powerful tools for analytics engineers. We are building a tailor-made clients IDE, CLI and a Low Code No Code (LCNC) platform that is deeply-integrated with the dbt ecosystem (including other dbt Cloud products), aiming to put more context at the fingertips of our users than they're able to get in any other development environment. Data teams everywhere will use your work to create organizational knowledge and power their daily business decisions.
In this role, you can expect to
- Help build and maintain dbt Cloud clients including the new LCNC platform, IDE and CLI app layer, backend services, performance, and scalability while relentlessly expanding its feature-set and capabilities
- Manage trade-offs, priorities, and deliverables by applying your experience in bringing projects to successful completion
- Work with teammates to build confidently and quickly via high-leverage tooling, mentorship, and your experience and knowledge of industry trends and practices
- Help define quality standards and drive the overall reliability of our services
- Participate in Daily Standups, mentee sessions, and pair programming
Qualifications
- Have 3-6 years of experience as a software engineer
- Minimum requirement of bachelor's degree in a related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.) OR completed enrollment in engineering related bootcamp
You are a good fit if you
- Have experience with using Python or Go to create scalable full-stack applications. For example, you have built services for applications with complex workflows
- Enjoy working closely with product and design
- Value interacting with end-users and deeply understand their needs
- Understand how to make tradeoffs to ship useful features today without sacrificing long-term quality
- Prefer to work in the backend, but have experience with the frontend and can reason about the end-to-end system
You have an edge if you
- Have worked on an application similar to this one, such as a visual design tool, an analytics application, or an IDE
- Have experience scaling applications, especially those with runtimes in Kubernetes and AWS
- Experience working in a distributed company
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive Salary: 281,000 - 341,000 BRL/year
- Equity Stake
- Benefits:
- Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision via Remote.com (CLT)
- Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness stipend
- Home office stipend, and more!
What to expect in the hiring process:
- An introductory call with a member of our Talent team
- A technical screen and meeting with the Hiring Manager
- A coding interview conducted in a collaborative, pair programming format
- A panel interview including multiple members of the Engineering Team
- A final interview with a member of our Engineering Leadership Team
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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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