Senior Software Engineer ll

dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, helping data teams transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights. Since 2016, we’ve grown from an open source project into the leading analytics engineering platform, now used by over 90,000 teams every week, driving data transformations and AI use cases. 

As of February 2025, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Platform customers, including AstraZeneca, Sky, Nasdaq, Volvo, JetBlue, and SafetyCulture. 

We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners:

• Reliable, high-quality data is the fuel that propels AI-powered data engineering.

• AI is changing data work, fast. dbt’s data control plane keeps data engineers ahead of that curve.
• We empower engineers to deliver reliable, governed data faster, cheaper, and at scale.

dbt Labs is now synonymous with analytics engineering, defining the modern data stack and serving as the data control plane for enterprise teams around the world. And we’re just getting started.. We’re growing fast and building a team of passionate, curious people across the globe. Learn more about what makes us special by checking out our values.

dbt Labs is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer ll to join our Platform Services teams. In this role you can expect to create and maintain stable, scalable services that are foundational to the dbt platform cloud product, based off solid architectural principles. We’re also driving forward the next evolution of the dbt platform by redesigning our external APIs to power improved user experiences. From rethinking our core data model and entities, to scaling our APIs accessing state that power hundreds of thousands of dbt run executions a day, you’ll be working on some of the most crosscutting and high scale work at dbt Labs today.

You’ll be joining a collaborative team of engineers; and as a Senior Engineer ll on the team, you will prioritize and tackle problems as they arise, working iteratively with product management, security and QA to deliver a great experience for our dbt Cloud administrators and end users.

Today we serve some of the largest data-driven organizations in the world, enabling them to make decisions based on the knowledge at the core of their business. Your work directly impacts dbt Lab’s mission by expanding the organizations we serve and the data practitioners we reach. You will have an opportunity to flex into a security mindset while bringing your software architecture and programming skills. You will also have an opportunity to mentor and guide other junior engineers across engineering and advocating for platform-focused security.

• Build and maintain stable, scalable foundational services that can be leveraged by other engineering teams, based off solid architectural principles and cross-team collaboration.
• Collaborate with many internal partners and product teams to influence the design of our API surface
• 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 (Django), Go, React, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and Datadog.

• 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 for API endpoints.
• Have experience supporting and evolving APIs through multiple iterations.
• 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.
• Ensure high programming standards by writing unit, functional, and integration tests.
• Have a systematic problem-solving approach coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

• 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.

1. Interview with Talent Acquisition Partner
2. Interview with Hiring Manager
3. Team Interviews