Senior Engineering Manager, Core

About Us

dbt Labs was founded in 2016 to empower analysts to create and disseminate organizational knowledge. Since then, we've grown to become one of the leading brands in the analytics industry. Our product, dbt, is used by thousands of companies. dbt Labs is a remote-first, values-driven company with a globally distributed team. You can learn more about our values here.

About the Core Engineering Team:

The Core team has stewardship over the open-source dbt project, works in public, and is responsible for adding new capabilities to dbt, optimizing the performance of parsing and executing projects, and reviewing community contributions.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Build, support, and lead a team of 5-10 highly talented and engaged engineers
• Coach and mentor engineers on the team to help them grow their skills and their careers
• Partner with the product team to execute the timely delivery of key business initiatives
• Foster and grow our OSS product and active Community
• Hold 1:1s, quarterly and annual reviews with every member of the team
• Gather, compile and clearly communicate performance feedback to the team
• Actively participate in our recruiting process from sourcing to hiring
• Foster technical decision making within the team, but also across teams

Qualifications:

• Have 2-5 years experience as a software engineer
• Minimum requirement of Bachelors degree in related field (computer science, computer engineering, etc.) OR
• Completed enrollment in engineering related bootcamp

You are a good fit if you:

• Have 3+ years of hands-on technical management experience as an engineering manager
• Have collaborated tightly with a product manager before
• Have a demonstrated track record of growing engineers of all levels to the next level
• Have successfully partnered with other internal teams to coordinate large spanning initiatives
• Are value-oriented, and you share our company values
• Are technical, and capable of having in-depth decisions with engineers about decisions they are making

You'll have an edge if you:

• Have used dbt in the past or have a background in analytics engineering
• Have experience with maturing Python codebases
• Have contributed to or maintained an OSS project
• Have experience managing a distributed team of engineers, or working remotely
• Have strong written communication skills
• Have startup experience

Compensation and Benefits:

• Salary: $213,000-$289,000
• 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. For employees outside the United States, dbt Labs offers a competitive benefits package.

*Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal limitations

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

• Interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner
• Interview with Hiring Manager
• Four Team Interviews (1:1s) that cover the following:
• Architecture: share a professional project and your understanding of the architecture
• Technical Manager Skills: your experience & philosophy managing technical teams
• Quality Team Interview: how you've collaborated with Quality teams
• People Manager Skills: your experience & philosophy on managing people
• Final interview with one of our Values Carriers

Who we are

At dbt Labs, we have developed strong opinions on how companies should practice analytics.

Specifically, we believe that:

• Code, not graphical user interfaces, is the best abstraction to express complex analytic logic
• Data analysts should adopt similar practices and tools to software developers
• Critical analytics infrastructure should be controlled by its users as open source software
• Analytic code itself - not just analytics tools - will increasingly be open source

It turns out that a lot of other people believe this too! Today, there are 9,000 companies using dbt every week, 30,000 practitioners in the dbt Community Slack, and 1,800 companies paying for dbt Cloud. Our customers include JetBlue, Hubspot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. dbt is synonymous with the practice of analytics engineering, defining an entire industry. We're backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. We recently raised our series D: read the announcement here!

dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes a diversity of perspectives, people, and backgrounds regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. We feel strongly that whether or not your experience exactly fits the job description, your passion and skills will stand out and set you apart even if your career has taken some twists and turns. If you are on the fence about whether you meet our requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway! Please reach out to us directly at recruiting@dbtlabs.com if you need assistance or an accommodation.

Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page here.

dbt Labs reserves the right to amend or withdraw the posting at any time.