dbt Labs
Staff Software Engineer, Metadata
Job Description
About Us
The Metadata team empowers data engineers and analysts through dbt Explorer, helping them discover, evaluate, and enrich dbt assets. As a platform team, we also provide essential search and discovery APIs that enhance user experiences across other dbt products, including Query Page and Visual Editor.
Your role
As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll collaborate with subject matter experts who share a vision for data discovery and cataloging across organizations. You'll build a distributed, highly available platform that connects dbt metadata with third-party BI and warehouse tools to create a seamless catalog experience. You'll design a search platform allowing stakeholders to easily find metadata from any source. Additionally, you'll help maintain and scale our existing ingestion pipeline and high-traffic API.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Mentor teammates and serve as a technical lead
- Design and implement scalable, reliable, and highly available system
- Align the team's architectural vision with broader company-wide architectural goals.
- Balance trade-offs, set priorities, and manage deliverables using your project completion expertise
- Foster efficient and confident teamwork through high-leverage tooling, mentorship, and your knowledge of industry trends and best practices
- Establish and uphold quality standards to enhance overall service reliability
- Participate in daily stand-ups, mentoring sessions, and pair programming
You are a good fit if you have:
- Worked asynchronously as part of a fully remote, international, distributed team
- Have experience using Python and Node to create scalable full-stack applications (e.g., building services for applications with complex workflows)
- Enjoy collaborating closely with product management partners
- Have worked with Elasticsearch or other search platforms
- Have experience scaling and designing complex data models
- Can make informed trade-offs to ship useful features promptly without compromising long-term quality
You'll have an edge if you have:
- Have experience with distributed systems, database modeling, caching layers and/or DB performance
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: 240,000 - 250,000 USD
- Equity Stake
- Benefits - dbt Labs offers:
- Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
- 401k
- Excellent healthcare
- Group Retirement Savings Program
- 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
Who we are
At dbt Labs, we have developed strong opinions on how companies should practice analytics.
Specifically, we believe that:
- Code-based transformations offer unmatched flexibility and transparency across various “multi-player” development to power everyone in the organization to collaborate on a common language
- 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 50,000 teams using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and 5,100 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.
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 an accommodation.
Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page here.
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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