Job Description
About Us
dbt Labs was founded in 2016 to empower analysts to create and disseminate organizational knowledge. Since then, we’ve grown to become one of the leading brands in the analytics industry. Our product, dbt, is used by thousands of companies. dbt Labs is a remote-first, values-driven company with a globally distributed team. You can learn more about our values here.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on distributed systems at scale. The work that you’ll be doing in this role will be high-impact, challenging, and highly visible. The Runtime team is building the next generation system that will power dbt execution for our customers, community, and internal stakeholders.
- You will join a team whose work is absolutely critical to the company’s success. Check out this recent post from our CTO to better understand how scaling and performance is central to dbt’s future success
- The Runtime team plays a key role in scaling dbt. This team is building the system that will run all the dbt tasks for all customers. This currently amounts to more than 500 hours of compute time for every hour, 24/7.
- Being on this team is a unique opportunity to design and implement a true large-scale system. We have seen a consistent 10% month-over-month increase in model building, which amounts to a 10x growth every 2 years. In the last 6 month, the IDE usage has 2.5x, which amounts to 30x growth every 2 years.
- Work with a variety of programming languages, systems, and technologies, including: Python, Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, and AWS
- Collaborate with other, internal teams to create and iterate on the runtime platform to create a highly reliable, highly-available, low-latency, runtime platform
- Have an outsized impact by owning one or multiple subsystems of the runtime platform
- Have a minimum of 5+ years experience as a software engineer
- Minimum requirement of Bachelors degree in related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.)Â OR
- Completed enrollment in engineering related bootcamp
- Have strong fundamentals in a variety of software development paradigms (e.g. object oriented, functional)
- Have experience working on a distributed team
- Understand how to make tradeoffs to ship useful features today without sacrificing long-term quality
- Are able to take concepts and quickly turn them into actionable solutions
- Are not afraid of big problems and are able to break them down into smaller problems
- Enjoy pairing with other developers on a day-to-day basis
- Have experience with Kubernetes and distributed systems of large scale
- Have experience with pair programing
- Salary:Â $154,000-$234,000
- Equity Stake*
- Benefits: In the US, dbt Labs offers unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!), 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution, excellent healthcare, paid parental leave and a home office stipend. For employees outside the United States, dbt Labs offers a competitive benefits package.
*Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal limitations
- Interview with a Talent Acquisition PartnerÂ
- Technical Interview with Hiring Manager
- Four Team Interviews (1:1s) that cover the following:
- Architecture: share a professional project and your understanding of the architectureÂ
- Systems Design (algorithms): technical exercise (use a whiteboarding tool, if you’d like)Â
- Values: discussion of our mission/vision within engineering s
- Cross-Functional Interview: understand your experience in partnering with a team member (quality or product)Â
- Final interview with one of our Values Carriers
Who we are
At dbt Labs, we have developed strong opinions on how companies should practice analytics.
Specifically, we believe that:
- Code, not graphical user interfaces, is the best abstraction to express complex analytic logic
- Data analysts should adopt similar practices and tools to software developers
- Critical analytics infrastructure should be controlled by its users as open source software
- Analytic code itself — not just analytics tools — will increasingly be open source
It turns out that a lot of other people believe this too! Today, there are 9,000 companies using dbt every week, 30,000 practitioners in the dbt Community Slack, and 1,800 companies paying for dbt Cloud. Our customers include JetBlue, Hubspot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. dbt is synonymous with the practice of analytics engineering, defining an entire industry. We’re backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. We recently raised our series D: read the announcement here!
dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes a diversity of perspectives, people, and backgrounds regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. We feel strongly that whether or not your experience exactly fits the job description, your passion and skills will stand out and set you apart even if your career has taken some twists and turns. If you are on the fence about whether you meet our requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway! Please reach out to us directly at [email protected] if you need assistance or accommodation due to disability.Â
Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page here.Â
dbt Labs reserves the right to amend or withdraw the posting at any time.
Date Posted
12/25/2022
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