Senior Platform Software Engineer

Role Description

As a Senior Platform Software Engineer, you'll have an outsized impact on every dbt Labs customer, tackling complex distributed systems problems while collaborating across product engineering, security, and infrastructure teams. This is a hands-on role where whatever you work on touches all of dbt Cloud and all of our customers at the same time.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Join a senior, distributed team: Become part of a closely-knit group of senior engineers at the intersection of application and infrastructure, working asynchronously with ongoing communication in public Slack channels.
• Architect and build platform infrastructure: Design, build, and operate foundational components of our multi-cell platform, including service routing, cloud networking, and the control plane for managing account lifecycles.
• Drive seamless migrations: Develop and automate the tooling to migrate customer accounts from legacy environments to the new multi-cell architecture at scale.
• Develop scalable backend services: Write robust, high-quality backend services and infrastructure code, primarily in Go and Python, with opportunities to work with Rust.
• Tackle cloud networking challenges: Collaborate on network architecture design, including VPC management, load balancing, DNS, PrivateLink, and service mesh configurations to support single-tenant and multi-tenant deployments.
• Automate for scale: Design and implement automation using tools like Argo Workflows, Kubernetes, and Terraform to enhance the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of our platform.
• Collaborate and mentor: Work closely with product engineering teams, security, and customer support to unblock feature conformance, define technical direction, and mentor other engineers.
• Own and troubleshoot: Take strong ownership of distributed systems, troubleshoot complex issues across application and network layers, and participate in an on-call rotation to maintain high availability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, particularly in platform, infrastructure, or backend roles supporting SaaS applications.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is preferred, though equivalent practical experience or bootcamp completion with relevant work history will be considered.

Requirements

• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team.
• Experienced backend or platform engineer, proficient in languages like Go or Python, with a history of building large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in modern cloud infrastructure, including extensive hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Thrive at the intersection of product and infrastructure, with a passion for building internal platforms and automation that enhance developer productivity and platform reliability.
• Familiarity with cloud networking concepts, including load balancing, DNS, VPCs, proxies, and service mesh technologies — or a strong desire to learn and grow in this domain.
• Take strong ownership of your work from end-to-end, demonstrating a systematic, customer-focused approach to problem-solving and a track record of contributing to complex technical projects.
• Proactive and collaborative communicator, skilled at articulating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical partners and working effectively across team boundaries.

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance.
• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, 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.