Senior Software Engineer, Auth Platform

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:

The Customer Identity & Product Security team has an exciting roadmap for this year - spanning end-user authentication and SSO, role-based access control, and the dbt Cloud security admin experience. These security and enterprise experiences are among the top priorities for the company as we continue to build momentum and growth in selling dbt Cloud to the largest organizations.

This person will work with stakeholders like security, product management, QA, and customer support as our team takes on these big cross-functional projects. They will have an opportunity to flex into a security mindset while bringing their software architecture and programming skills to build reliable, secure systems for our dbt cloud SaaS product. They will be primarily working on the Django monolith and a couple of Go micro-services. There will also be an opportunity to mentor and guide other junior engineers across engineering and espousing for platform-focused security.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Work on enhancing the enterprise-grade authentication and authorization platform that enables Single Sign-On, Role Based Access Control and User and Token management.
• Building new products that bring dbt Cloud closer to security admins and unlock new revenue streams for our business.
• Design and develop reliable, secure, highly available and delightful experiences for both customer personas: the dbt Cloud admin and the end user.
• Collaborate with Product Management, UX designers, Security, and Customer Support.
• Work with a variety of programming languages, systems, and technologies, including: Python, Go, Typescript, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and Datadog.

Qualifications:

• Have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Minimum requirement of bachelor's degree in a related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.)

You are a good fit if you:

• Have strong fundamentals in object-oriented programming.
• Have designed and built API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC and OAuth for API endpoints.
• Are able to balance speed of delivery with designing scalable, reusable components.
• Are passionate about design and code reviews that help grow the team.
• Are highly motivated and able to work autonomously.
• Are ready to go outside of the team’s realm when there are infrastructure-related dependencies and collaborate with other teams to aid the delivery of team features.
• Ensure high programming standards by writing unit, functional, and integration tests.
• Have a systematic problem-solving approach coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

You'll have an edge if you:

• Have worked with authentication protocols like SAML and OIDC and authorization protocols like OAuth and authorization products like Zanzibar, OpenFGA etc.
• Have an interest in application-level product security.
• Have built reliable, mission-critical software for external customers.
• Have designed and implemented scalable architecture patterns.
• Have experience with Datadog or other log monitoring services and working with it to debug production issues.
• Have experience working on a distributed team.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Salary: 84,000 - 105,000 Euro per year
• Equity Stake*
• Benefits - dbt Labs offers:
  • Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
  • Excellent healthcare
  • Pension Plan
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Wellness stipend
  • Home office stipend, and more!

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.