Senior Cloud Network Engineer II

Summary

Join dbt Labs as our first dedicated Cloud Network Engineer to design, implement, and manage our cloud network infrastructure. You will establish network engineering practices, supporting and expanding our dbt Cloud offering in AWS and Azure. This role involves designing resilient network architectures, troubleshooting and monitoring the network, reviewing network needs of developer teams, configuring VPCs and network security services, automating operational tasks, and creating solutions for secure client connections to dbt Cloud. You will also improve network documentation. This is a fully remote position.

Requirements

• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
• Enjoy working 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, 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, transit gateways, Route 53, Calico
• Ability to write and understand scripts and automation in the language of your choice - at dbt Labs you’ll encounter Python, Go, and Bash with Terraform for IaC

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in multiple public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Terraform experience
• Kubernetes networking experience
• Experience defining an SLA and implementing metric collections and reporting for the network products you’ve developed
• Have at least 8 years of experience
• Completed enrolment in related bootcamp

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
• 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
• Excellent healthcare
• Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness stipend
• Home office stipend, and more!