Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Summary

Join dbt Labs' enterprise engineering team as a Senior Backend Engineer and contribute to building and maintaining stable, scalable foundational services. You will enhance the enterprise-grade authentication and authorization platform, design and develop reliable and secure user experiences, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Leveraging your 8+ years of software engineering experience, you will work with technologies like Python, Go, React, and AWS. This role offers the opportunity to mentor junior engineers and contribute to the company's mission of expanding its reach to data practitioners globally. The position includes a competitive salary, equity stake, excellent healthcare, and other benefits.

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Minimum requirement of bachelor's degree in a related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.)
• Have strong fundamentals in object-oriented programming
• Have designed and built API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC and OAuth for API endpoints
• Are able to balance speed of delivery with designing scalable, reusable components
• Are passionate about design and code reviews that help grow the team
• Are highly motivated and able to work autonomously
• Are ready to go outside of the team’s realm when there are infrastructure-related dependencies and collaborate with other teams to aid the delivery of team features
• Have a systematic problem-solving approach coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive

Responsibilities

• Work on enhancing the enterprise-grade authentication and authorization platform that enables Single Sign-On, Role Based Access Control and User and Token management
• Build and maintain stable, scalable foundational services that can be leveraged by other engineering teams, based off solid architectural principles and cross-team collaboration
• Design and develop reliable, secure, highly available and delightful experiences for both customer personas: the dbt Cloud admin and the end user
• Collaborate with Product Management, UX designers, Security, and Customer Support
• Work with a variety of programming languages, systems, and technologies, including: Python, Go, React, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and Datadog
• Ensure high programming standards by writing unit, functional, and integration tests

Preferred Qualifications

• Have worked with authentication protocols like SAML and OIDC and fine-grained authorization
• Have an interest in application-level product security
• Have built reliable, mission-critical software for external customers
• Have designed and implemented scalable architecture patterns
• Have experience with Datadog or other log monitoring services and working with it to debug production issues
• Have experience working on a distributed team

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: 100,000 - 130,000 Euro per year
• Equity Stake
• Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
• Excellent healthcare
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness stipend
• Home office stipend