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
We are seeking a seasoned Backend Software Engineer to join our growing Cloud Config team, focused on enabling powerful, intuitive public- and internal-facing APIs. This role is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge internal tools that empower our engineers and accelerate innovation across the company.
You’ll play a key role in building new services and APIs, developing integrations to third-party systems, and creating a world class platform that automates and customer enhance workflows while handling exponentially growing traffic volumes.
What You'll Do- Design, build, and maintain public- and internal-facing APIs
- Integrate with third-party platforms such as GitHub while providing a seamless application experience to dbt Cloud customers.
- Maintain world-class operations and security posture through by building and maintaining automation, monitoring, alerting, and on call rotation for your services in production.
- Develop tools and recipes to increase developer productivity across all of dbt Labs
- Collaborate with researchers, product teams, and internal developers to create scalable and safe integrations.
- Contribute to internal infrastructure that supports the future growth of dbt Labs.
- You’re a backend engineer with 5 to 8+ years of experience building production-grade systems.
- You have deep expertise in Python or similar enterprise languages, and interest in Rust.
- You’ve worked extensively with public- and internal facing APIs in a fast-paced technology environment.
- You’ve designed and implemented systems that scale to thousands of customers, millions of transactions.
- Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating in fast-paced, cross-functional teams is a strong plus.
- You are excited to shape the future of dbt Labs.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive Salary: €102,000 - €124,000 Euro per year
- Equity Stake
- Benefits via Ireland Entity:
- Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision
- Retirement Savings Program
- Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness stipend
- Home office stipend, and more!
What to expect in the hiring 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
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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. Equity 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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