[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer II @dbt Labs

Role Description

Analytics is entering an agentic era. As a Senior Software Engineer on Agentic Automation & ADLC Systems, you will build the autonomous and assisted agents that operate across the Analytics Development Life Cycle (ADLC) — from requirements to deployment to remediation. These agents don’t just automate tasks; they reason over enterprise context, act on data products, and leave behind decision memory that improves the system over time.

What You’ll Do

• Build agentic systems that automate analytics workflows across the ADLC
• Design and implement agents for:
  • Requirements & intent capture
  • Build & validation
  • Test & deploy
  • Operate, observe, and remediate
• Orchestrate agent workflows using event-driven triggers
• Integrate agents with ingestion and transformation workflows
• Encode governance and decision policies into automation
• Ensure every agent action is explainable, attributable, observable, and auditable
• Balance autonomy with human-in-the-loop controls

What You’ll Own

• Agent behavior and orchestration logic
• ADLC automation workflows, governance expressed as executable logic
• Agent interaction with the Context Platform
• Safe auto-remediation and escalation paths, observability and feedback/recovery loops

What You Won’t Own

• Context storage or schema design
• Low-level platform security primitives
• Long-term data durability decisions (You consume these via the Context Platform.)

Qualifications

• Strong experience in backend, platform, or systems engineering
• Experience building automation, workflows, or orchestration systems, familiarity with event-driven architectures
• Understanding of data/documentation tools, integration nuances, their information systems
• Hands-on experience building systems with LLMs or agentic systems (practical, production-minded)
• Strong intuition for safety, failure modes, and guardrails, AI observability
• Exposure to working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data

Nice to Have

• Experience with CI/CD or developer tooling
• Familiarity with analytics engineering or dbt
• Experience integrating with human workflow tools (GitHub, Slack, Jira, Notion)
• Background in reliability/resilience engineering

Why This Role Matters

If these agents are built correctly:

• Analytics workflows accelerate without losing trust
• Governance becomes proactive, not reactive
• Humans focus on decisions, not plumbing

This role turns context into action.

Company Description

dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. Even if your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply—we value potential just as much as a perfect resume.

Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page.