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 50,000 teams every week.
As of February 2025, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Cloud customers, including JetBlue, HubSpot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners:
- Code-based data transformations unlock transparency, flexibility, and collaboration
- Analysts should adopt software engineering best practices to build trusted data products
- Core analytics infrastructure should be open source and user-controlled
- Analytic code—not just tools—should be shared and community-driven
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on the company’s exciting new Fusion & Compute initiatives. This role requires a unique balance of technical expertise and people leadership. You’ll guide a team of talented engineers working on foundational systems and services that power our company’s most critical products.
As an Engineering Manager, you will set the technical vision, drive execution on high-impact initiatives, and ensure strong collaboration across teams. You’ll be expected to stay close to the codebase—contributing to architecture decisions, performing code reviews, and occasionally coding alongside your team—while also providing the guidance, mentorship, and structure that enable engineers to thrive.
This role is for you if you have a passion for database internals, drivers, the nuances of data types, and maybe even compiler design.
This is an opportunity for someone who is excited to solve complex engineering challenges, foster a culture of excellence, and build the systems that are core to our long-term success. 🚀
In this role, you can expect to:
- Build, lead, and coach a team of engineers to deliver delightful developer experiences
- Empower your team with business context. Support their ownership of the team roadmap, product development lifecycle, and technical excellence
- Partner with Product and Design to create a long-term vision for data practitioner workflows
- Coach engineers in product thinking, quality, and system design. Build individualized growth plans and match interests and capabilities to available work.
- Work with peer managers to evolve organizational processes like hiring, onboarding, and project execution.
- Address customer needs and concerns in partnership with our Customer Support team.
Qualifications:
- 2+ years in people management with a product engineering team
- 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.
- Experience at the systems engineering level of database architecture, compute engines, or compilers.
- Success partnering with in-house recruiting to hire and retain senior engineering talent
- Degree in Computer Science or similar, and proven expertise with C, C++, Rust, or Java.
You are a good fit if you have:
- Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
- You have strong communication skills. You can communicate complex engineering tradeoffs to stakeholders with differing levels of technical fluency.
- You have startup or scale-up experience. You may be asked to wear many hats, and agility in shifting roles and scopes will contribute to your success.
- You’re pragmatic & toolchain agnostic. You’ve seen a variety of languages and technologies and choose the stack that best fits the esign criteria.
- You have an opinion on what constitutes high-performing and clear direction on arriving there with your team.
You'll have an edge if you have:
- Worked on analytical database tooling, SQL, or query optimizers.
- Annual Salary: $180,000 - $250,000 USD
- Equity Stake
- Benefits - dbt Labs offers:
- Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
- 401k
- Pension Plan
- 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness stipend
- Home office stipend, and more!
*Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal limitations
What to expect in the hiring process (all video interviews unless accommodations are needed):- Interview with Talent Acquisition Partner
- Interview with Hiring Manager
- Team Interviews
- Final Round Values Interview
dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. Even if your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply—we value potential just as much as a perfect resume.
Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page.
dbt Labs reserves the right to amend or withdraw the posting at any time. For employees outside the United States, dbt Labs offers a competitive benefits package. Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal or country limitations.
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