Staff Software Engineer, Experience

About the Experience Team:

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Experience group. In this role, you will partner with product and design to create delightful and powerful tools for analytics engineers.

We are building a tailor-made IDE that is deeply-integrated with the dbt ecosystem (including other dbt Cloud products), aiming to put more context at the fingertips of our users than they're able to get in any other development environment. You will provide technical leadership to the team by doing. Data teams everywhere will use your work to create organizational knowledge and power their daily business decisions.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Define quality standards and drive the overall reliability of our IDE
• Continuously improve our IDE’s core backend architecture, performance, and scalability while relentlessly expanding its feature-set and capabilities
• Manage trade-offs, priorities, and deliverables by applying your experience in bringing projects to successful completion.
• Work with product to define and instrument important usage metrics and KPIs for the Cloud IDE
• Enable teammates to build confidently and quickly via high-leverage tooling, mentorship, and your experience and knowledge of industry trends and practices
• Support the career development of team members by providing mentorship and coaching on design patterns, backend architecture, and technical decision-making.

Qualifications:

• Minimum requirement of Bachelors degree in related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.) OR
• Have 10+ years experience as a software engineer
• Completed enrollment in engineering related bootcamp

You are a good fit if you:

• Understand how to make tradeoffs to ship useful features today without sacrificing long-term quality
• Value interacting with end-users and deeply understand their needs
• Enjoy working closely with product and design
• Prefer to work in the backend, but have experience with the frontend and can reason about the end-to-end system
• Have experience collaborating with multiple teams (e.g,. infra, upstream services, etc.) to drive projects and features to completion
• Have experience with using Python or Go to create scalable applications. For example, you have built services for applications with complicated workflows.

You'll have an edge if you:

• Have worked on an application similar to this one, such as a visual design tool, an analytics application, or an IDE
• Have experience scaling applications, especially those with runtimes in Kubernetes and AWS
• Have experience working in a distributed company

Compensation and Benefits:

• Salary: $213,000-$288,000
• Equity Stake*
• Benefits: In the US, dbt Labs offers unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!), 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution, excellent healthcare, paid parental leave and a home office stipend.

What to expect in the hiring process (all video interviews unless accommodations are needed):

• A final interview with a Values Carrier
• A technical interview with the Hiring Manager
• Values Alignment
• Product and Customer Mindset
• Systems Design
• Organizational Influence and Impact
• Technical Architecture
• Five Team Interviews (1:1s) that cover the following:
  • Organizational Influence and Impact
  • Technical Architecture
  • Systems Design
  • Product and Customer Mindset
  • Values Alignment
• Interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner