[Hiring] Software Engineer - Product Development (Backend or Full-Stack) @Dagster Labs

Role Description

We’re looking for a product-minded software engineer to join the team building Dagster+, our hosted SaaS product, to help make Dagster the de facto cloud solution for organizations to manage their data platform with AI-native tooling. In this role, you will:

• Drive improvements to Dagster’s backend system, agentic platform, and product UI to unlock new capabilities for our users.
• Solve difficult technical problems throughout the software stack and work collaboratively with the rest of the team to plan and execute.
• Instrument, monitor, debug, and optimize distributed & agentic systems from end to end.
• Talk directly to our users (data engineers and platform owners) to understand how best to improve our product.

This is a full-time, competitively paid position with benefits. We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis. We have team members all over the U.S. and we are hiring fully remote candidates in the U.S. Every employee is provided a remote work stipend to cover the cost of home office equipment and anything else that makes your remote work location comfortable, productive, or successful. And if you’d rather not work from home, we’ll cover the cost of a coworking or office space if you’re fully remote.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant software development experience
• Fluency in Python or a similar high-level programming language, and proficiency with frontend development (we use React)
• Expertise across the full software development lifecycle, from planning to delivery and iteration
• Experience in a high-functioning engineering organization working on B2B SaaS applications or large-scale distributed systems
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Proven effectiveness at contributing to and executing as part of a team

Requirements

• Experience with agentic product development, including MCP, skills, and evals
• Experience building services on Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes & Postgres
• Experience with Dagster or related data orchestrators
• Experience with using or supporting tools in the Modern Data Stack
• Experience engaging directly with users for research and support

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $190,000 - $225,000
• Remote work stipend for home office equipment
• Coverage for coworking or office space if preferred

Company Description

At Dagster Labs, our mission is simple but ambitious: to empower every organization to build a productive, scalable data platform. We’re the brains behind Dagster, the open-source tool developers love, and Dagster+, our managed cloud. From scrappy startups to global enterprises, thousands of teams trust us to power the data behind their analytics, machine learning, and AI breakthroughs.

We believe the AI era runs on reliable, high-quality data. That’s why we make data platforms easier to test, easier to understand, and actually enjoyable to use. Dagster is quickly becoming the backbone of how the world builds intelligent systems.

We’re a small, well-funded team with big energy and a track record of shipping software people rave about. We aim high and work as a team, holding ourselves to the highest standards and trusting each other to deliver. We care about how we work together: no egos, no drama, just a lot of curiosity and a drive to make something meaningful.

You should apply to work at Dagster Labs if you want to work in, and help to build and strengthen, a high-performing software development environment where people of all backgrounds are welcome.