Senior Backend Software Engineer, dbt Labs
Orchestration
$185-225k
+Equity Stake
Data transformation tools
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Data transformation tools
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$185-225k
+Equity Stake
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower data practitioners to create and disseminate organizational knowledge.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Salary: 185,000 - 225,000 USD per year
- Minimum requirement of bachelor's degree in a related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.)
Desirable
- Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
- Have experience in the domain of data analytics and transformation
What the job involves
- 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
- 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, systems, and technologies, including: Python, 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
Application process
- Interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner
- Technical Interview with Hiring Manager
- Coding Challenge
- Systems Design, Architecture & Product Partner
- Final interview with leadership team member
Our take
In 2018, dbt Labs founder Tristan Handy was running an analytics company and created a data build tool (or ‘dbt’) to help transform data for analysis. Fast forward one year and dbt Labs was born, offering its tools to help companies everywhere transform their data workflows.
Raw data comes in myriad forms and dbt Labs’ software allows data specialists to manage the data transformation layer making its use for analysis much easier. It offers consulting services on top of the software, and has ridden a wave of companies embracing digital transformation more as their services and workplaces become more online.
Seen as the defacto standard for modern analytics engineering by many, it reached unicorn status within 2 years of launch and is focusing future efforts on expanding reach more markets outside of the US. Its recent acquisition of Transform, an analytics engineering company, will aid in further developing its product's data transformation capabilities.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$222m
SERIES D
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $414.4m
Company benefits
- Equity Stake
- Unlimited vacation
- 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
- Excellent healthcare
- Paid parental leave
- Home office stipend
Company values
- We are a mission-driven company
- We contribute to the knowledge loop
- We are more concerned with value creation than value capture
- Work done well is its own end
- Transparency always wins
- We value diversity
- Users are our best advocates
- We are humble
- We optimize for the long-term
- We work hard and go home
- We are human
- We believe in moving up the stack
- Values are more important than success
Company HQ
West Poplar, Philadelphia, PA
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Leadership
Tristan Handy
(CEO)Previously worked as a Senior Consultant at Deloitte, Director of Operations at Squarespace, COO at Argyle Social and Vp of Marketing at RJMetrics.
Connor McArther
(CTO)Former Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at RJMetrics and Stitch.
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