Staff Software Engineer, Experience

About Us

Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help analysts create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt Labs pioneered the practice of analytics engineering, built the primary tool in the analytics engineering toolbox, and has been fortunate enough to see a fantastic community coalesce to help push the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow. Today there are 30,000 companies using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and over 4,100 dbt Cloud customers. You can learn more about our values here.  

We are currently seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Experience group. In this role, you will partner with our product and design teams to create delightful and powerful tools for analytics engineers. We build an IDE, CLI, and visual editor deeply integrated with the dbt ecosystem, aiming to put more context at our users' fingertips than they can get in any other development environment. As a Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership to the teams working on our experience products. Your work will be utilized by data teams worldwide to support their daily business decisions.

In this role, you can expect to

• Expand the product experiences available to dbt developers. Today, we are working on visual editing, IDE plugins, and AI development assistants.
• Continuously improve our IDE’s core backend architecture, performance, and scalability.
• Define quality and observability standards for our developer experience products.
• Drive technical design and decision-making, including architectural decisions. Help the team define technical trade-offs, and collaborate with managers to define priorities and deliverables.
• Enable teammates to build confidently and quickly via standards, foundational APIs for common functionality, and deployment best practices for our cloud-based infrastructure
• Support the professional development of your peers through mentorship and coaching. This role offers a unique chance to not only contribute to our product but also to grow and develop your own skills and leadership abilities.

Qualifications

• Have 8+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Minimum requirement of bachelor's degree in a related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.) OR completed enrollment in engineering related bootcamp

You are a good fit if you

• Have experience with using Python or Go to create scalable applications. 
• Value interacting with end-users to deeply understand their needs
• Have good communication skills and enjoy working cross-functionally with multiple engineering …