About the role

Role Overview

Join Dagster Labs’ Platform Engineering Team to evolve the Platform API and the systems underpinning Dagster+. You’ll help advance the foundations of the Dagster+ hosted experience by building scalable backend platform components that support orchestration, production, and observation of data assets.

Responsibilities

Develop and optimize core backend systems and infrastructure components
Improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of critical resources via analysis and refinement
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions aligned with product needs
Review designs and code to maintain high standards for quality and performance

Requirements (Must-have)

5+ years of relevant software development experience
Strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle (scoping/planning through delivery and iteration)
Expertise in system design (scalability, third-party integrations, and API design)
Fluent in Python
Strong written and oral communication skills
Experience working in high-functioning engineering orgs on large-scale distributed systems or B2B SaaS
Proven ability to contribute effectively as part of a team

Nice-to-have

Experience with modern infrastructure tooling
Familiarity with the Modern Data Stack
Experience building/scaling services on AWS, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL

Location / Work Setup

Distributed team (offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis)
Open to fully remote candidates authorized to work in the United States

About Dagster Labs

Dagster Labs builds the Dagster open-source data orchestration platform and Dagster+, its managed cloud offering. The company helps teams structure and operate data pipelines for analytics, machine learning, and AI—making data platforms easier to test, understand, and run reliably at scale.

Software Engineer - Platform

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