Staff Software Engineer, Query Applications

Summary

Join dbt Labs' Query Applications team and collaborate with subject matter experts to build a distributed, highly available system empowering customers to access critical business metrics. You will design and implement scalable, reliable systems, prioritize user experience, and balance trade-offs to deliver useful features. The role involves mentoring teammates, fostering teamwork, and upholding quality standards. This full-stack position requires experience with Python or Go for building scalable applications and working with LLMs. The ideal candidate values collaboration, understands user needs, and can make informed trade-offs. dbt Labs offers competitive compensation, including salary, equity, and benefits such as unlimited vacation, 401k, excellent healthcare, paid parental leave, and wellness stipends.

Requirements

• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully remote, international, distributed team
• Have experience using Python or Go to create scalable full-stack applications (e.g., building services for applications with complex workflows)
• Enjoy collaborating closely with product management partners
• Have worked with Large Language Models (LLMs) in the past
• Value interacting with end-users and deeply understanding their needs
• Can make informed trade-offs to ship useful features promptly without compromising long-term quality
• Love backend work but have frontend experience and can reason about end-to-end systems

Responsibilities

• Mentor teammates and serve as a technical lead
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and highly available systems
• Prioritize end-user experience and contribute to its continuous improvement
• Balance trade-offs, set priorities, and manage deliverables using your project completion expertise
• Foster efficient and confident teamwork through high-leverage tooling, mentorship, and your knowledge of industry trends and best practices
• Establish and uphold quality standards to enhance overall service reliability
• Participate in daily stand-ups, mentoring sessions, and pair programming

Preferred Qualifications

Have experience with distributed systems, database modeling, caching layers and/or DB performance

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
• 401k plan
• Excellent healthcare
• Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness stipend
• Home office stipend, and more!