Staff Software Engineer, dbt Labs
Experience
$217-255k
Data transformation tools
Open for applications
Data transformation tools
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$217-255k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower data practitioners to create and disseminate organizational knowledge.
Role
Who you are
- Have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Minimum requirement of bachelor's degree in a related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.) OR completed enrollment in engineering related bootcamp
- Have experience with using Python or Go to create scalable applications
- Value interacting with end-users to deeply understand their needs
- Have good communication skills and enjoy working cross-functionally with multiple engineering teams across product and infrastructure
- Desire to coach and mentor more junior engineers
Desirable
- Have worked on a similar application, such as a visual design tool, an analytics application, or an IDE
- Have experience scaling applications, especially those with runtimes in Kubernetes on AWS or Azure
What the job involves
- We are currently seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Experience group. In this role, you will partner with our product and design teams to create delightful and powerful tools for analytics engineers
- We build an IDE, CLI, and visual editor deeply integrated with the dbt ecosystem, aiming to put more context at our users' fingertips than they can get in any other development environment
- As a Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership to the teams working on our experience products
- Your work will be utilized by data teams worldwide to support their daily business decisions
- Expand the product experiences available to dbt developers. Today, we are working on visual editing, IDE plugins, and AI development assistants
- Continuously improve our IDE’s core backend architecture, performance, and scalability
- Define quality and observability standards for our developer experience products
- Drive technical design and decision-making, including architectural decisions. Help the team define technical trade-offs, and collaborate with managers to define priorities and deliverables
- Enable teammates to build confidently and quickly via standards, foundational APIs for common functionality, and deployment best practices for our cloud-based infrastructure
- Support the professional development of your peers through mentorship and coaching. This role offers a unique chance to not only contribute to our product but also to grow and develop your own skills and leadership abilities
Application process
- An introductory call with a member of our Talent team
- A technical screen and meeting with the Hiring Manager
- A panel interview including multiple members of the Engineering Team
- A final interview with a member of our Engineering Leadership Team
Our take
In 2018, dbt Labs founder Tristan Handy was running an analytics company and created a data build tool (or ‘dbt’) to help transform data for analysis. Fast forward one year and dbt Labs was born, offering its tools to help companies everywhere transform their data workflows.
Raw data comes in myriad forms and dbt Labs’ software allows data specialists to manage the data transformation layer making its use for analysis much easier. It offers consulting services on top of the software, and has ridden a wave of companies embracing digital transformation more as their services and workplaces become more online.
Seen as the defacto standard for modern analytics engineering by many, it reached unicorn status within 2 years of launch and is focusing future efforts on expanding reach more markets outside of the US. Its recent acquisition of Transform, an analytics engineering company, will aid in further developing its product's data transformation capabilities.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$222m
SERIES D
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $414.4m
Company benefits
- Equity Stake
- Unlimited vacation
- 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
- Excellent healthcare
- Paid parental leave
- Home office stipend
Company values
- We are a mission-driven company
- We contribute to the knowledge loop
- We are more concerned with value creation than value capture
- Work done well is its own end
- Transparency always wins
- We value diversity
- Users are our best advocates
- We are humble
- We optimize for the long-term
- We work hard and go home
- We are human
- We believe in moving up the stack
- Values are more important than success
Company HQ
West Poplar, Philadelphia, PA
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Founders
Tristan Handy
(CEO)Previously worked as a Senior Consultant at Deloitte, Director of Operations at Squarespace, COO at Argyle Social and Vp of Marketing at RJMetrics.
Connor McArther
(CTO)Former Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at RJMetrics and Stitch.
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