Senior Platform Engineer
dbt Labs
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Platform EngineeringStorage ServicesMulti-CloudAWSAzureGCPTerraformInfrastructure as CodeMulti-TenancyPostgreSQL
About the role
Role Overview
Senior Platform Engineer (Storage Services) at dbt Labs. You will help build and scale storage-based infrastructure that powers dbt Cloud across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with an emphasis on automation, self-service, and improving developer velocity.
Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and scale storage-based infrastructure systems across multiple tenancy models and public clouds.
- Drive projects that refine and scale the storage platform, ensuring performance and reliability.
- Improve developer experience through better tooling, processes, and infrastructure design.
- Collaborate across teams to solve real infrastructure challenges and shape the future of multi-cloud dbt Cloud.
Requirements
- Programming/scripting capability in Python, Go, Rust, or Bash.
- Strong communication skills and experience working asynchronously on a fully remote distributed team.
- Significant experience designing and operating relational data and object storage platforms in production.
- Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform).
- Experience operating infrastructure across multiple clouds.
- Experience building or running multi-tenant storage platforms at scale.
- Deep expertise in two or more of: PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ.
Nice to Have
- Any partial fit encouraged—dbt Labs values potential as much as perfect resume alignment.
About dbt Labs
dbt Labs builds dbt Cloud, a modern analytics engineering platform used to develop and orchestrate data transformations. The company focuses on helping teams manage data workflows reliably at scale across major cloud providers. It operates in the data/analytics infrastructure space with an emphasis on cloud-native engineering.
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