Senior Platform Software Engineer, Transport

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.

• 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 life cycles.
• 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, Private Link, 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.

• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully‑remote, distributed team
• Are an experienced backend or platform engineer, proficient in languages like Go or Python, with a history of building large‑scale distributed systems.
• Have 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.
• Bring 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.
• Are a proactive and collaborative communicator, skilled at articulating technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical partners and working effectively across team boundaries.

• 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, Private Link, 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.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience,…