• 3+ years in people management with a software engineering team
• Experience in cloud based applications with complex resource requirements and global deployment strategy. You have earned wisdom about best practices at the place where application and infrastructure meet, including a POV on achieving reliability, availability, performance, and security
• Experience leading teams through all parts of the product development lifecycle. You’ve lived design, implementation, end-to-end testing, observability, release strategies, and incident management
• Have successfully partnered across teams and departments to coordinate cross-cutting initiatives
• You are interested in our mission and values. You are inspired to drive progress in the data and analytics ecosystem

Desirable

• Over the past year we have built a next-generation multi-cell architecture and we are now looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead this Multi-cell team and drive the next stages of platform maturation
• The cell-based architecture is a large-scale, worldwide distributed system, and this team has an outsize impact on every customer of dbt Labs
• Today we serve some of the largest data-driven organizations in the world, enabling them to make decisions based on the knowledge at the core of their business
• The quality, reliability, and performance our cell implementation equates to leverage for analysts, analytics engineers, and data engineers in organizations of all shapes and sizes
• Build, lead, and coach a team of 5-8 engineers building the cell-based architecture for dbt Cloud
• Empower your team to achieve big goals by giving them product and business context and supporting team ownership of the roadmap, product development lifecycle, and technical excellence
• Develop a technical vision for the maturation of our cell architecture, control plane, and network boundaries
• Dive deep into our product to frame tradeoffs and make decisions about what, how, and when we build
• Partner with Product Marketing, Solutions Architecture, and Customer Support to build delightful migration experiences, helping our customers seamlessly move off legacy deployments
• Coach engineers in product thinking, quality, and software engineering. Build individualized growth plans and match interests and capabilities to team goals
• Work with peer managers to evolve organizational processes like product training, technical decision making, project execution, and planning

• All video interviews unless accommodations are needed:
• Interview with Talent Acquisition Partner
• Interview with Hiring Manager
• Team Interviews
• Final interview with CTO