Senior Software Engineer II

Summary

Join dbt Labs as a Senior Software Engineer II and help build and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure services for our analytics engineering platform. You will collaborate with multiple teams to design and implement foundational services, enhancing product capabilities, performance, and scalability. Your work will directly impact our mission by improving the platform for thousands of data practitioners. As a senior engineer, you will collaborate cross-functionally, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to engineering best practices. You will design, build, and maintain scalable services, tackle complex problems, build user-friendly APIs, and champion a culture of technical excellence. You will also debug production issues and optimize system performance. This role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

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.) **OR** completed enrolment in engineering related bootcamp
• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer developing SaaS platforms and applications at scale
• Proven experience designing and scaling backend services
• Strong understanding of API design, system architecture, and database management
• Proficiency with backend languages and frameworks such as Python, Go, Rust, django, Node.js, Java, Spring
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Proficiency in designing API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC
• Experience building scalable and secure distributed systems
• A systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, and a sense of ownership
• Ability to balance technical depth with fast, iterative delivery
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction within the team

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain services that scale with our growing customer base
• Tackle ambiguous, open-ended problems with strategic thinking, balancing technical constraints with user needs and product goals
• Build services, APIs, and experiences that support user delight, quality, high availability and performance
• Champion a culture of technical excellence and innovation, influencing engineering direction within the team
• Work with cross-functional teams, including Product, UX, and Security, to deliver impactful solutions
• Contribute to engineering best practices, mentor junior engineers, and participate in design and code reviews
• Debug production issues and optimise system performance using observability tools
• Work with technologies such as Python, Rust, Typescript, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and Datadog

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with data engineering tools or data processing pipelines
• Background in performance optimization and observability tools like Datadog
• Experience working on distributed, remote-first teams

Benefits

• Compensation: 102,000 - 124,000 per year
• Equity Stake
• Comprehensive benefits package, including: Unlimited PTO (and we encourage you to use it!)
• Excellent healthcare coverage
• Pension Plan
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness and home office stipends