Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
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:
We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to help build and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure services that power our platform. In this role, you’ll work across multiple teams to design and implement foundational services that enhance our product's performance, , and enterprise readiness.
We serve some of the most data-driven organizations in the world, enabling them to make decisions based on trusted, well-governed data. Your work will directly impact our mission by expanding the organizations we serve and improving the experience for thousands of data practitioners.
As a Senior Engineer, you’ll collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, Product Design and Infrastructure teams to solve complex technical challenges, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to best practices that drive engineering excellence.
What You’ll Do:
- Build and maintain backend services that scale with our growing customer base.
- Develop APIs and system architectures that support high availability and performance.
- Work with cross-functional teams, including Product, UX, and Security, to deliver impactful solutions.
- Contribute to engineering best practices, mentor junior engineers, and participate in design and code reviews.
- Debug production issues and optimize system performance using observability tools.
- Work with technologies such as Python, Go, React, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and Datadog.
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a strong background in backend development.
- Proficiency in designing API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC.
- Experience building scalable and secure distributed systems.
- A systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, and a sense of ownership.
- Ability to balance technical depth with fast, iterative delivery.
Nice to Have:
- Experience working in a remote, distributed team environment.
- Hands-on experience with observability tools like Datadog.
- Have experience with distributed systems, database modeling, caching layers and/or DB performance.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Salary: 95,000 - 125,000 Euro per year
- Equity Stake*
- Ireland Benefits - dbt Labs offers:
- Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
- Pension Plan
- Excellent healthcare
- Paid Parental Leave
- Monthly wellness & internet stipends
- Home office stipend, and more!
What to expect in the hiring process (all video interviews unless accommodations are needed):
- Interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner
- Technical Interview with Hiring Manager
- Coding Challenge
- Systems Design, Architecture & Product Partner
- Final interview with leadership team member
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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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