Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join dbt Labs as a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Config team, a critical part of dbt Cloud's infrastructure. You will build, coach, and empower a team of engineers, partnering with Product and Design to shape the future of data practitioner workflows. This role requires extensive experience in people management, product development, and complex cloud-based systems. The successful candidate will be based in Ireland and play a key role in shaping the engineering organization's culture and growth. dbt Labs offers a competitive salary, equity stake, and comprehensive benefits, including unlimited vacation, 401k, excellent healthcare, paid parental leave, and wellness stipends.

Requirements

• 5+ years in people management with a product engineering team
• Experience leading teams through all parts of the product development lifecycle. You’ve lived design, implementation, end-to-end testing, observability, release strategies, and incident management
• Experience in complex cloud-based workflows, including web and command-line based applications. You have earned wisdom about best practices in frontend architecture, API design, and developer experience
• Success partnering with in-house recruiting to hire and retain senior engineering talent
• Degree in Computer Science or similar

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and coach a team of engineers to deliver delightful developer experiences
• Empower your team with business context. Support their ownership of the team roadmap, product development lifecycle, and technical excellence
• Partner with Product and Design to create a long-term vision for data practitioner workflows
• Coach engineers in product thinking, quality, and system design. Build individualized growth plans and match interests and capabilities to available work
• Work with peer managers to evolve organizational processes like hiring, onboarding, and project execution
• Address customer needs and concerns in partnership with our Customer Support team

Preferred Qualifications

• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
• You have strong written communication skills. You can communicate complex engineering tradeoffs to stakeholders with differing levels of technical fluency
• You have startup or scaleup experience. You may be asked to wear many hats, and agility in shifting roles and scopes will contribute to your success
• You’re open to a variety of languages and technologies. Today dbt Labs engineering works in TypeScript, React, Python, Go, and Kubernetes across cloud providers
• You have an opinion on what constitutes high-performing and clear direction on arriving there with your team

Benefits

• Salary: 130,000 - 190,000 Euro
• Equity Stake
• Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
• 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
• Excellent healthcare
• Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness stipend
• Home office stipend, and more!