Senior Backend Software Engineer II, Orchestration

About Us

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.

The Orchestration team owns and operates some of the most critical services at dbt Labs that power job scheduling and execution for dbt Cloud. We are simultaneously evolving our product and system while operating at scale, meeting strict uptime requirements, and satisfying the needs of large enterprises. We are seeking an experienced backend engineer to help shape our architecture and drive our ambitious roadmap, all while collaborating in a highly dynamic team environment.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Help shape the future of the orchestration system by designing and implementing reliable, secure, highly available services, and refactoring legacy systems in collaboration with the staff+ engineering group

• Work on complex systems and a variety of programming languages and technologies, including: Python, Rust, Go, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and Datadog.

• Collaborate across multiple engineering teams, product management, UX designers, customer support.

• Act as a mentor to junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices and architectural decisions

You are a good fit if you:

• Are able to balance speed of delivery with designing and implementing reliable, secure, highly available services

• Have extensive experience designing micro-services, event driven architecture, APIs (REST and/or gRPC)

• Have a strong knowledge of observability and debugging production issues at scale

• Have a systematic problem-solving approach coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

• Are passionate about upholding engineering best practices in all phases of SDLC

• Are a self-starter and can lead a group of engineers from inception to implementation of ideas

You'll have an edge if you have:

• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team

• Have experience in the domain of data analytics and transformation

Qualifications:

• Have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer

• Minimum requirement of bachelor's degree in a related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.)