dbt Labs
Tech / AI / Software
SeniorPlatformEngineer
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“Senior Platform Engineer at dbt Labs. Skills: Storage Services, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), Programming/Scripting (Python, Go, Rust, Bash). Design, operate, and scale storage based infrastructure systems across multiple tenancy models and public clouds.. Deepen expertise in areas including relational databases, search, caching, queuing, and streaming.”
What You'll Achieve.
reduce cognitive load for developers by providing a stable, observable, and easy-to-use infrastructure platform.; scaling dbt Cloud across all three cloud providers.; improving the components of the storage platform we’ve developed today, while building new components to enable product feature development.; ensuring performance, reliability, and a great developer experience.; strengthen platform scalability, security, and developer experience.; provide a seamless platform for application teams.; improving reliability and reduce operational toil.
Industry & Context.
solve real infrastructure challenges
Participate in a balanced on-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Significant experience designing and operating relational data and object storage platforms in production., Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and declarative Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)., Programming/scripting ability in Python, Go, Rust or Bash., Excellent communication skills and experience working asynchronously on a fully remote, distributed team.
Nice to Have
Experience building or running multi-tenant storage platforms at scale., Deep expertise in two or more of the following: PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ., Experience operating infrastructure across multiple clouds.
What You'll Do.
and scale storage based infrastructure systems across multiple tenancy models and public clouds.
Deepen expertise in areas including relational databases
Partner with Architecture
Leverage tools and languages such as Terraform
Participate in a balanced on-call rotation.
Refine and scale our storage platform
and a great developer experience.
Drive projects that refine and scale our storage platform.
Solve real infrastructure challenges.
Help shape the future of multi-cloud dbt Cloud.
and improving developer velocity through better tooling
and infrastructure design.
Improving the components of the storage platform.
Building new components to enable product feature development.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate across teams; Partner with Architecture, Release Engineering, Network, Compute, and Security teams; working asynchronously on a fully remote, distributed team
Communication Scope
Excellent communication skills
Full Job Description
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 90,000 teams every week, driving data transformations and AI use cases. As of February 2025, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Platform customers, including AstraZeneca, Sky, Nasdaq, Volvo, JetBlue, and SafetyCulture. We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners: Reliable, high-quality data is the fuel that propels AI-powered data engineering. AI is changing data work, fast. dbt’s data control plane keeps data engineers ahead of that curve. We empower engineers to deliver reliable, governed data faster, cheaper, and at scale. dbt Labs is now synonymous with analytics engineering, defining the modern data stack and serving as the data control plane for enterprise teams around the world. And we’re just getting started.. We’re growing fast and building a team of passionate, curious people across the globe. Learn more about what makes us special by checking out our values. We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer specializing in Storage Services to help us build a seamless, reliable platform for dbt Cloud across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Our team’s mission is to reduce cognitive load for developers by providing a stable, observable, and easy-to-use infrastructure platform. Over the past year, we’ve designed and operationalized a next-gen cell-based architecture, scaling dbt Cloud across all three cloud providers. Now, we’re focused on automation, self-service, and improving developer velocity through better tooling, processes, and infrastructure design. Specifically we’ll be focusing on the improving the components of the storage platform we’ve developed tod
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