Senior Software Engineer

Role Description

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer on the Cloud Clients team, you’ll own end-to-end delivery across the surfaces where dbt developers do their work:

• dbt Studio in the browser
• dbt VS Code extension
• CLI workspace runtime that powers both

You’ll help build dbt’s AI-native developer experience, including:

• Agent workflows
• Diff review
• Streaming tool calls
• Charts and rich outputs for conversational analytics
• MCP apps that bring dbt projects directly into tools like Claude and Codex

This is a true full-stack role: you’ll work across Python, TypeScript, React, and Kubernetes, with the expectation that you can take a feature from schema and service design through to the final pixel without a handoff.

What you’ll do:

• Own parts of the CLI workspace runtime that backs both surfaces, including migrating users off our legacy IDE and enabling asynchronous, background agent runs.
• Design and build agent-facing experiences: streaming responses, transparent tool calls, diff review, and charting / rich output for conversational analytics.
• Extend dbt into other developer surfaces — MCP integrations that make dbt projects usable directly from AI clients like Claude and Codex.
• Lead well-scoped projects end to end: write the plan, partner with design and product, ship in two-week increments, and measure whether it worked.
• Share on-call and customer support for your surfaces, and mentor engineers earlier in their careers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software, including senior-level ownership of projects that ran for months and involved several people.
• Deep Python experience plus exposure to TypeScript and React experience — you move across the stack without waiting for a handoff.
• Built and maintained something other developers depend on: an IDE, an editor extension, a CLI, an SDK, an LSP server, or a data tool.
• Comfort with the operational side of shipping — APIs, Kubernetes, Postgres, observability — and with being on the hook when something breaks.
• Strong written communication: you can make a technical argument in a document and bring people along.
• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team.

Requirements

• Bonus points for shipped LLM- or agent-powered features to production, with real opinions on evaluation, latency, cost, and where models fall down.
• Worked with the Language Server Protocol, Monaco, CodeMirror, or other code-editor internals.
• Hands-on dbt, SQL, or data warehouse experience (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift).
• Migrated users off a legacy product surface and decommissioned it without breaking them.
• Go, Rust, or systems-level performance experience.

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance
• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays (including a year-end Global Week of Rest), and volunteer days off
• RSU stock grants
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.