Senior Engineering Manager

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 5,100 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:

About the Role

The Cloud Config team is at the heart of the most complex domains and integrations powering dbt Cloud, including git providers, Slack, and data warehouses. As we scale our product, we have to support a diverse set of new and existing services.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to the lead this fast-growing team, partnering closely with other Engineering Manager, Product Managers, and Designers. You’ll be working across teams, features, tools, and technologies to support a rich business-critical product surface area that our customers depend on for their day-to-day operations. 🚀

We’re also excited to expand our engineering team in Ireland 🇮🇪 The successful candidate will be at the forefront of setting the tone for the engineering org and helping us grow our brand presence.

What You'll Do

• Build, lead, and coach a team of engineers to deliver delightful developer experiences
• Empower your team with business context. Support their ownership of the team roadmap, product development lifecycle, and technical excellence
• Partner with Product and Design to create a long-term vision for data practitioner workflows
• Coach engineers in product thinking, quality, and system design. Build individualized growth plans and match interests and capabilities to available work
• Work with peer managers to evolve organizational processes like hiring, onboarding, and project execution.
• Address customer needs and concerns in partnership with our Customer Support team

What You'll Need

• 5+ years in people management with a product engineering team
• Experience leading teams through all parts of the product development lifecycle. You’ve lived design, implementation, end-to-end testing, observability, release strategies, and incident management
• Experience in complex cloud-based workflows, including web and command-line based applications. You have earned wisdom about best practices in frontend architecture, API design, and developer experience
• Success partnering with in-house recruiting to hire and retain senior engineering talent
• Degree in Computer Science or similar

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
• You have strong written communication skills. You can communicate complex engineering tradeoffs to stakeholders with differing levels of technical fluency
• You have startup or scaleup experience. You may be asked to wear many hats, and agility in shifting roles and scopes will contribute to your success
• You’re open to a variety of languages and technologies. Today dbt Labs engineering works in TypeScript, React, Python, Go, and Kubernetes across cloud providers
• You have an opinion on what constitutes high-performing and clear direction on arriving there with your team

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time with a culture that actively encourages time off
• Pension Plan
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• Generous paid parental leave
• Health & wellness stipend
• Flexible stipends for:
  • Home office setup
  • Learning and development
  • Office space
  • And more

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation packages commensurate with experience, including salary, equity, and where applicable, performance-based pay. Our Talent Acquisition Team can answer questions around dbt Lab’s total rewards during your interview process.

• The typical starting salary range for this role is:
  • €130,000 - €165,000 EUR

Remote Hiring Process 

1. Interview with Talent Acquisition Partner
2. Interview with Hiring Manager
3. Team Interviews
4. Final interviews with CTO & CEO

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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.