Software Engineer

Summary

Join Dagster, a well-funded startup, as a product-minded software engineer to contribute to Dagster+, our hosted SaaS product. You will enhance Dagster's backend system, open-source framework, and product UI, solving complex technical challenges across the software stack. Collaborate with the team to plan and execute projects, instrument, monitor, debug, and optimize distributed systems. Directly interact with users (data engineers and platform owners) to understand and improve the product. This full-time, competitively paid position offers benefits and remote work options with a stipend for home office equipment or co-working space.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant software development experience
• Fluency in Python or a similar high-level programming language, and proficiency with frontend development (we use React)
• Expertise across the full software development lifecycle, from planning to delivery and iteration
• Experience in a high-functioning engineering organization working on B2B SaaS applications or large-scale distributed systems
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Proven effectiveness at contributing to and executing as part of a team

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute product development initiatives from prototype to user adoption, in collaboration with product and design and your peers in engineering
• Participate in technical architecture discussions and help the team make key technical decisions
• Solve difficult technical problems throughout the software stack and get projects over the finish line, across front-end, back-end, or infrastructure
• Proactively identify and address opportunities for enhancement—be it in code quality, user experience, or overall performance—and lead initiatives to make these improvements happen

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in progressing into a tech lead role, and relevant experience
• Experience building services on Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes & Postgres
• Experience with Dagster or related data orchestrators
• Experience with using or supporting tools in the Modern Data Stack
• Experience engaging directly with users for research and support

Benefits

• This is a full-time, competitively paid position with benefits
• We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis
• We have team members all over the U.S. and we are hiring fully remote candidates in the U.S
• Every employee is provided a remote work stipend to cover the cost of home office equipment and anything else that makes your remote work location comfortable, productive, or successful
• And if you’d rather not work from home, we’ll cover the cost of a coworking or office space if you’re fully remote