Senior Software Engineer, dbt Labs

• Have experience supporting and evolving APIs through multiple iterations
• Care about users and understanding their needs
• Are a self-starter and can lead a group of engineers from inception to implementation of ideas
• Understand how to make tradeoffs to ship useful features today without sacrificing long-term quality
• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team

Desirable

• The Cloud Config team is driving forward the next evolution of dbt Cloud by redesigning our external APIs to power improved user and developer 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
• Collaborate with many internal partners and product teams to influence the design of our API surface
• Collect non-functional requirements around making a great REST API surface
• Partner closely with senior and staff engineers on the team to migrate various workloads to new APIs
• Manage and monitor the systems you build at scale
• Work with variety of programming languages, systems, and technologies, including: Python, Django, gRPC, RabbitMQ, Postgres, Kubernetes, and AWS
• Dive deep into our observability tooling to understand system health and prioritize a roadmap

• What to expect in the hiring process (all video interviews unless accommodations are needed):
• Interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner
• Technical Interview with Hiring Manager
• Coding Challenge
• Systems Design, Architecture & Product Partner
• Final interview with leadership team member