[Hiring] Senior Platform Engineer, Storage @dbt Labs

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer specializing in Storage Services to help us build a seamless, reliable platform for dbt Cloud across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Our team’s mission is to reduce cognitive load for developers by providing a stable, observable, and easy-to-use infrastructure platform.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Design, operate, and scale storage based infrastructure systems across multiple tenancy models (single vs. multi-tenant) and public clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
• Deepen our team’s expertise in one or more areas including: relational databases, search, caching, queuing, and streaming - helping strengthen platform scalability, security, and developer experience.
• Partner with Architecture, Release Engineering, Network, Compute, and Security teams to provide a seamless platform for application teams.
• Leverage tools and languages such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Python, SQL, Go, Bash, and Datadog.
• Participate in a balanced on-call rotation in an environment that values continuous improvement, helping to improve reliability and reduce operational toil.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing and operating relational data and object storage platforms in production.
• Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and declarative Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Programming/scripting ability in Python, Go, Rust or Bash.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working asynchronously on a fully remote, distributed team.

Requirements

• Experience building or running multi-tenant storage platforms at scale.
• Deep expertise in two or more of the following: PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ.
• Experience operating infrastructure across multiple clouds.

Benefits

• Salary: €96,000 - €125,000 Euro
• Company RSUs
• Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
• Pension Plan with employer match
• Private healthcare plan
• Wellness stipend
• Home office stipend, and more!
• *RSUs or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal limitations

Company Description

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.

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.