dbt Labs is seeking an experienced backend engineer to help shape the architecture and drive the ambitious roadmap for their Orchestration team, which owns and operates critical services powering job scheduling and execution for dbt Cloud. The team is evolving its product and system while operating at scale, meeting strict uptime requirements, and satisfying the needs of large enterprises.
Requirements
- 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
- Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
- Have experience in the domain of data analytics and transformation
Responsibilities
- 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 and technologies, including: Python, Rust, 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
Other
- Are able to balance speed of delivery with designing and implementing reliable, secure, highly available services
- Have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
- 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
- Excellent healthcare
