Software Engineer - Observability Product

Dagster Labs is on a mission to empower organizations to build scalable data platforms with their open-source tool, Dagster, and managed cloud, Dagster+. They are seeking a product-minded software engineer to enhance Dagster+, focusing on backend system improvements, product UI enhancements, and solving technical challenges while collaborating with users to optimize the product.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and execute product development initiatives from prototype to user adoption, in collaboration with product and design and your peers in engineering
• Participate in technical architecture discussions and help the team make key technical decisions
• Solve difficult technical problems throughout the software stack and get projects over the finish line, across front-end, back-end, or infrastructure
• Proactively identify and address opportunities for enhancement—be it in code quality, user experience, or overall performance—and lead initiatives to make these improvements happen

Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant software development experience
• Fluency in Python or a similar high-level programming language, and proficiency with frontend development (we use React)
• Expertise across the full software development lifecycle, from planning to delivery and iteration
• Experience in a high-functioning engineering organization working on B2B SaaS applications or large-scale distributed systems
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Proven effectiveness at contributing to and executing as part of a team
• Interest in progressing into a tech lead role, and relevant experience
• Experience building services on Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes & Postgres
• Experience with Dagster or related data orchestrators
• Experience with using or supporting tools in the Modern Data Stack
• Experience engaging directly with users for research and support