Senior Backend Software Engineer II, Orchestration

dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, helping data teams transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights. The Orchestration team is seeking an experienced backend engineer to help shape their architecture and drive their ambitious roadmap, focusing on designing and implementing reliable, secure, highly available services.

Responsibilities:

• Help shape the future of the orchestration system by designing and implementing reliable, secure, highly available services, and refactoring legacy systems in collaboration with the staff+ engineering group
• Work on complex systems and a variety of programming languages and technologies, including: Python, Rust, Go, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and Datadog
• Collaborate across multiple engineering teams, product management, UX designers, customer support
• Act as a mentor to junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices and architectural decisions

Requirements:

• Have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Minimum requirement of bachelor's degree in a related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.)
• Are able to balance speed of delivery with designing and implementing reliable, secure, highly available services
• Have extensive experience designing micro-services, event driven architecture, APIs (REST and/or gRPC)
• Have a strong knowledge of observability and debugging production issues at scale
• Have a systematic problem-solving approach coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• Are passionate about upholding engineering best practices in all phases of SDLC
• Are a self-starter and can lead a group of engineers from inception to implementation of ideas
• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
• Have experience in the domain of data analytics and transformation