Senior Platform Software Engineer, Transport
About The Position
As a Senior Platform Software Engineer, you'll have an outsized impact on every dbt Labs customer, tackling complex distributed systems problems while collaborating across product engineering, security, and infrastructure teams. This is a hands-on role where whatever you work on touches all of dbt Cloud and all of our customers at the same time. In this role, you can expect to: Join a senior, distributed team: Become part of a closely-knit group of senior engineers at the intersection of application and infrastructure, working asynchronously with ongoing communication in public Slack channels. Architect and build platform infrastructure: Design, build, and operate foundational components of our multi-cell platform, including service routing, cloud networking, and the control plane for managing account lifecycles. Drive seamless migrations: Develop and automate the tooling to migrate customer accounts from legacy environments to the new multi-cell architecture at scale. Develop scalable backend services: Write robust, high-quality backend services and infrastructure code, primarily in Go and Python, with opportunities to work with Rust. Tackle cloud networking challenges: Collaborate on network architecture design, including VPC management, load balancing, DNS, PrivateLink, and service mesh configurations to support single-tenant and multi-tenant deployments. Automate for scale: Design and implement automation using tools like Argo Workflows, Kubernetes, and Terraform to enhance the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of our platform. Collaborate and mentor: Work closely with product engineering teams, security, and customer support to unblock feature conformance, define technical direction, and mentor other engineers. Own and troubleshoot: Take strong ownership of distributed systems, troubleshoot complex issues across application and network layers, and participate in an on-call rotation to maintain high availability.
Requirements
- Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
- Experienced backend or platform engineer, proficient in languages like Go or Python, with a history of building large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in modern cloud infrastructure, including extensive hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Thrive at the intersection of product and infrastructure, with a passion for building internal platforms and automation that enhance developer productivity and platform reliability.
- Familiarity with cloud networking concepts, including load balancing, DNS, VPCs, proxies, and service mesh technologies — or have a strong desire to learn and grow in this domain.
- Take strong ownership of your work from end-to-end, demonstrating a systematic, customer-focused approach to problem-solving and a track record of contributing to complex technical projects.
- Proactive and collaborative communicator, skilled at articulating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical partners and working effectively across team boundaries.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, particularly in platform, infrastructure, or backend roles supporting SaaS applications.
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is preferred, though equivalent practical experience or bootcamp completion with relevant work history will be considered.
Nice To Haves
- Direct experience with cell-based or multi-tenant architectures, particularly with building tooling for large-scale account migrations.
- A proven track record of building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure that empowers other engineers.
- Hands-on experience with cloud networking tools such as nginx, Istio, Envoy, AWS Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, or Kubernetes CNI/service mesh implementations.
- Deep expertise in multi-cloud strategies, including tools for cross-cloud management and cost optimization.
- Advanced proficiency with our core technologies, including extensive professional experience with both Go and Python, and an interest in or exposure to Rust.
- Advanced industry certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) or contributions to open-source cloud-native projects.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate foundational components of our multi-cell platform, including service routing, cloud networking, and the control plane for managing account lifecycles.
- Develop and automate the tooling to migrate customer accounts from legacy environments to the new multi-cell architecture at scale.
- Write robust, high-quality backend services and infrastructure code, primarily in Go and Python, with opportunities to work with Rust.
- Collaborate on network architecture design, including VPC management, load balancing, DNS, PrivateLink, and service mesh configurations to support single-tenant and multi-tenant deployments.
- Design and implement automation using tools like Argo Workflows, Kubernetes, and Terraform to enhance the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of our platform.
- Work closely with product engineering teams, security, and customer support to unblock feature conformance, define technical direction, and mentor other engineers.
- Take strong ownership of distributed systems, troubleshoot complex issues across application and network layers, and participate in an on-call rotation to maintain high availability.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
