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
dbt Fusion is building the next generation of data execution and connectivity infrastructure, enabling dbt workloads to run efficiently across diverse compute engines and data platforms. As a Senior Engineer on the Fusion Adapters and Connectivity team, you’ll design and ship core abstractions powering how dbt communicates with execution systems — leveraging Rust, Go, Arrow, and emerging open standards. This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of systems programming, database internals, and high-visibility open-source development. Your work will shape a foundational platform leveraged across the dbt ecosystem and the broader data community.
You are a good fit if you have:- Strong programming background in Rust, Go, C++ or similar performance-oriented languages.
- Experience designing or maintaining SDKs, libraries, connectors, or compute/data integration codebases.
- Exposure to data warehouses, query engines, Arrow/columnar ecosystems, or execution runtimes.
- A desire to build foundational platform components that other teams and community members rely on.
- Comfort working in public code review loops, async-first communication, and collaborative RFC processes.
- A mindset grounded in debuggability, reliability, and ownership in ambiguous problem spaces.
- Design, build, and maintain Rust-first connectivity layers, execution APIs, and adapter scaffolding.
- Partner with teams building the dbt compiler, semantic layer, and runtime to evolve adapter interfaces and system boundaries.
- Contribute to Arrow/ADBC and other open-source specifications or implementations, strengthening the data ecosystem.
- Own CI, testing frameworks, profiling, error reporting surfaces, and release readiness for Fusion adapters.
- Debug complex interoperability and performance issues across drivers, engines, and compute domains.
- Collaborate with internal and community maintainers to review PRs, write RFCs, and evolve public code architectures.
- Mentor engineers on systems best practices and contribute to shared patterns around resilience, debuggability, and API clarity.
- Contributed to or interacted with Arrow, ADBC, DuckDB, Presto, DataFusion, Spark, ClickHouse, or similar engines.
- Experience shaping adapter/plugin standards, driver contracts, or architectural interfaces used by others.
- Familiarity with Rust async ecosystems (tokio, tower, tracing) or Go concurrency practices.
- Prior OSS governance experience — triaging issues, reviewing PRs, or working with community maintainers.
- An interest in building developer-experience layers or scaffolding frameworks for adapter authors.
- 6+ years experience in software engineering, with strong systems-level skills.
- 2+ years working in open-source, SDK, runtime, or low-level integration environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / related field or equivalent experience through industry OSS contributions.
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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