About Us
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 50,000 teams every week.
As of February 2025, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Cloud customers, including JetBlue, HubSpot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners:
- Code-based data transformations unlock transparency, flexibility, and collaboration
- Analysts should adopt software engineering best practices to build trusted data products
- Core analytics infrastructure should be open source and user-controlled
- Analytic code—not just tools—should be shared and community-driven
The Orchestration team owns and operates some of the most critical services at dbt Labs that power job scheduling and execution for dbt Cloud. We are simultaneously evolving our product and system while operating at scale, meeting strict uptime requirements, and satisfying the needs of large enterprises. We are seeking an experienced backend engineer to help shape our architecture and drive our ambitious roadmap, all while collaborating in a highly dynamic team environment.
In this role, you can expect to:
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
You are a good fit if you:
Are able to balance speed of delivery with designing and implementing reliable, secure, highly available services
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
You'll have an edge if you have:
Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
Have experience in the domain of data analytics and transformation
Qualifications:
Have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
Minimum requirement of bachelor's degree in a related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.)
Salary: We offer competitive compensation packages commensurate with experience, including salary, equity, and where applicable, performance-based pay. Our Talent Acquisition Team can answer questions around dbt Labs' total rewards during your interview process. In select locations (including Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York Metro, San Francisco, DC Metro, Seattle, Austin), an alternate range may apply, as specified below.
- The typical starting salary range for this role is: $172,000 - $207,900 USD
- The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed is: $191,000 - $231,000 US
Benefits - dbt Labs offers:
- Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
- 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
- Excellent healthcare
- Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness stipend
- Home office stipend, and more!
- Interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner (30 Mins)
- Technical Interview with Hiring Manager (60 Mins)
- Team Interviews - Technical ( 3 rounds, 45 Mins each)
- Final Leadership Interview (30 Mins)
dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. Even if your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply—we value potential just as much as a perfect resume.
Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page.
dbt Labs reserves the right to amend or withdraw the posting at any time. For employees outside the United States, dbt Labs offers a competitive benefits package. RSUs or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal or country limitations.
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What We Do
At dbt Labs, we make data work. Our open-source software, dbt, enables anyone who knows SQL to engineer, document, and test data pipelines. By empowering analysts to work like and with data engineers, dbt drastically increases an organization's ability to model and serve analytics. We’ve built a community of 100,000+ people and are backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. dbt is already used and loved by thousands of companies and dbt Cloud enables this workflow at scale.
dbt Labs headquarters are in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but we are a distributed team and advocate for a remote-first culture. We want our people to work from the places where they are happiest, healthiest, and most inspired to do great things.
Why Work With Us
At dbt Labs, we bring our whole selves to work. We bring our interests and experiences, our cultural influences, our physical and emotional needs, our communication styles and lifestyles, our values, and our curiosity. We have built a lot of trust in each other, and we work hard to be worthy of it.
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