Senior Platform Engineer, Storage

Posted 11 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Ireland, IRL
Remote
96K-125K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Software • Database • Analytics
The Role
The Senior Platform Engineer will design and scale storage infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP, focusing on automation and developer experience.
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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 90,000 teams every week, driving data transformations and AI use cases. 

As of February 2025, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Platform customers, including AstraZeneca, Sky, Nasdaq, Volvo, JetBlue, and SafetyCulture. 

We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners:

  • Reliable, high-quality data is the fuel that propels AI-powered data engineering.

  • AI is changing data work, fast. dbt’s data control plane keeps data engineers ahead of that curve.
  • We empower engineers to deliver reliable, governed data faster, cheaper, and at scale.

dbt Labs is now synonymous with analytics engineering, defining the modern data stack and serving as the data control plane for enterprise teams around the world. And we’re just getting started.. We’re growing fast and building a team of passionate, curious people across the globe. Learn more about what makes us special by checking out our values.

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer specializing in Storage Services to help us build a seamless, reliable platform for dbt Cloud across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Our team’s mission is to reduce cognitive load for developers by providing a stable, observable, and easy-to-use infrastructure platform.

Over the past year, we’ve designed and operationalized a next-gen cell-based architecture, scaling dbt Cloud across all three cloud providers. Now, we’re focused on automation, self-service, and improving developer velocity through better tooling, processes, and infrastructure design. Specifically we’ll be focusing on the improving the components of the storage platform we’ve developed today, while building new components to enable product feature development.

As a Senior Engineer on our team, you’ll drive projects that refine and scale our storage platform, ensuring performance, reliability, and a great developer experience. You’ll collaborate across teams, solve real infrastructure challenges, and help shape the future of multi-cloud dbt Cloud.

In this role, you can expect to:

  • Design, operate, and scale storage based infrastructure systems across multiple tenancy models (single vs. multi-tenant) and public clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
  • Deepen our team’s expertise in one more areas including: relational databases, search, caching, queuing, and streaming - helping strengthen platform scalability, security, and developer experience.
  • Partner with Architecture, Release Engineering, Network, Compute, and Security teams to provide a seamless platform for application teams.
  • Leverage tools and languages such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Python, SQL, Go, Bash, and Datadog.
  • Participate in a balanced on-call rotation in an environment that values continuous improvement, helping to improve reliability and reduce operational toil.

You are a good fit if you have:

  • Significant experience designing and operating relational data and object storage platforms in production.
  • Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and declarative Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
  • Programming/scripting ability in Python, Go, Rust or Bash.
  • Excellent communication skills and experience working asynchronously on a fully remote, distributed team.

You'll have an edge if you have:

  • Experience building or running multi-tenant storage platforms at scale.
  • Deep expertise in two or more of the following: PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ.
  • Experience operating infrastructure across multiple clouds.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary: €96,000 - €125,000 Euro
  • Company RSUs
  • Benefits - dbt Labs offers:
    • Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
    • Pension Plan with employer match
    • Private healthcare plan
    • Wellness stipend
    • Home office stipend, and more!

*RSUs or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal limitations

What to expect in the hiring process (all video interviews unless accommodations are needed):
  1. Interview with Talent Acquisition Partner
  2. Interview with Hiring Manager
  3. Team Interviews
  4. Final Interview with Engineering Leadership

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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Skills Required

  • Significant experience designing and operating relational data and object storage platforms in production
  • Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
  • Programming/scripting ability in Python, Go, Rust or Bash
  • Excellent communication skills and experience working asynchronously in a remote team

dbt Labs Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about dbt Labs and has not been reviewed or approved by dbt Labs.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Compensation ranges are accessible internally, updated twice a year using external market data, and guided by a stated philosophy targeting competitive cash and equity. Feedback suggests people can understand how their pay is determined relative to market and role.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave of 16 weeks and additional family‑oriented paid leaves are described as generous and broadly available. A remote‑first setup with encouraged time off further supports family needs.
  • Healthcare Strength Medical, dental, and vision coverage is presented as high‑quality for employees and dependents, complemented by mental health support and company‑paid disability and life insurance (US). Wellness programs and a health‑related travel benefit reinforce overall health support.

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The Company
HQ: Philadelphia, PA
700 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

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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