Senior Cloud Network Engineer II

Summary

Join dbt Labs as a Senior Platform Engineer and design, implement, and manage our cloud network infrastructure. You will establish network engineering practices, support dbt Cloud in AWS and Azure, and design resilient network architectures. Collaborate with various teams, troubleshoot and monitor the network, and streamline existing systems. Review network needs for new features and services, configure VPCs, and automate operational tasks. Develop solutions for secure client connections to dbt Cloud and improve network documentation. This role requires expertise in networking protocols, cloud platforms, and automation.

Requirements

• 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

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
• Experience defining an SLA and implementing metric collections and reporting for network products you’ve developed

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!