Senior Engineering Manager - Infrastructure

dbt Labs

20h•$223,000 - $270,000•Remote

About The Position

We’re looking for an Infrastructure Senior Engineering Manager to help us build a seamless, reliable platform for the dbt platform across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Our team’s mission is to create a seamless developer experience 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 the dbt platform across all three cloud providers. Now, we’re focused on automation, self-service, and improving developer velocity through better tooling, processes, and infrastructure design. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll lead your team on infrastructure projects to refine our platform while ensuring performance, reliability, and an excellent developer experience. You'll collaborate across teams, tackle real infrastructure challenges, and help shape the future of the multi-cloud dbt platform.

Requirements

5+ years in people management with a software or infrastructure engineering team
Experience managing senior individual contributors (Staff+ level).
Experience supporting a cloud-based infrastructure with complex resource requirements and global deployment strategy. You bring hard-won expertise on reliability, availability, performance, and security at the intersection of application and infrastructure.
Deep understanding of Terraform and cloud infrastructure state management

Nice To Haves

Experience leading teams through all parts of the product development lifecycle. You’ve lived design, implementation, end-to-end testing, observability, release strategies, and incident management.
Have successfully partnered across teams and departments to coordinate cross-cutting initiatives
You are interested in our mission and values. You are inspired to drive progress in the data and analytics ecosystem.
Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
Have excellent written communication skills. We are a remote-first company that uses writing to facilitate decision-making.
Startup or scaleup experience. You may be asked to wear many hats, and agility in shifting roles and scopes will contribute to your success.

Responsibilities

Build, lead, and coach a team of 8-12 engineers to manage the infrastructure for the dbt platform and report to the Director of Infrastructure
Empower your team to achieve big goals by giving them product and business context and supporting team ownership of the roadmap, product development lifecycle, and technical excellence.
Dive deep into our product to frame tradeoffs and make decisions about what, how, and when we build.
Partner with Product Marketing, Solutions Architecture, and Customer Support to build delightful migration experiences, helping our customers seamlessly move off legacy deployments.
Coach engineers in product thinking, quality, and software engineering. Build individualized growth plans and match interests and capabilities to team goals.
Work with peer managers to evolve organizational processes like product training, technical decision making, project execution, and planning.