[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer II - Authoring Apps @dbt Labs

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer II who cuts through complexity, ships fast, and builds things customers truly love. At dbt Labs, you’ll have the freedom and responsibility to own entire slices of the product, move with speed, and ship features used by thousands of data teams. If you’re the type of engineer who can see the big picture, sweat the details, and still move with agility, you’ll fit right in. We are actively building a visual data modeling tool that empowers thousands of developers with our new Fusion engine.

• Take ideas from zero → production with speed, autonomy, and precision
• Ship features that directly impact how thousands of data teams work every day
• Manage trade-offs, priorities, and deliverables by applying your experience in bringing projects to successful completion
• Move fast, break down walls, and cut through bloat to deliver real value
• Collaborate with product and design, and are always pushing things forward

Qualifications

• A track record of building and shipping fullstack products that made a dent in customer outcomes
• The ability to weigh tradeoffs, bias towards action, and take ownership over what you build
• Strong fullstack skills (React/TypeScript, Node, Python, SQL) and comfort owning the whole stack
• Comfort working async with a fully-remote, distributed team

Requirements

• Have worked on an application similar to this one, such as a visual design tool, an analytics application, or an IDE
• Have experience scaling applications, especially those with runtimes in Kubernetes and AWS
• Have experience working in an async environment and distributed company

Benefits

• Salary: $196,000 - $270,000 USD
• Equity Stake*
• Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
• 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
• Excellent healthcare
• Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness stipend
• Home office stipend, and more!

*Equity 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.

As of February 2025, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Platform customers, including AstraZeneca, Sky, Nasdaq, Volvo, JetBlue, and SafetyCulture.

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.