Senior Engineering Manager - Infrastructure

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 90,000 teams every week, driving data transformations and AI use cases.

We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners:

• Reliable, high-quality data is the fuel that propels AI-powered data engineering.
• AI is changing data work, fast. dbt’s data control plane keeps data engineers ahead of that curve.
• We empower engineers to deliver reliable, governed data faster, cheaper, and at scale.

We are looking for an Infrastructure Senior Engineering Manager to help us build a seamless, reliable platform for the dbt platform across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Our team’s mission is to create a seamless developer experience by providing a stable, observable, and easy-to-use infrastructure platform.

Over the past year, we’ve designed and operationalized a next-gen cell-based architecture, scaling the dbt platform across all three cloud providers. Now, we’re focused on automation, self-service, and improving developer velocity through better tooling, processes, and infrastructure design.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll lead your team on infrastructure projects to refine our platform while ensuring performance, reliability, and an excellent developer experience.

About the Team

You'll be managing one of the infrastructure teams within the larger Platform organization. This team will be responsible for our infrastructure as a service, multi-cell management and migrations, network ingress/egress connectivity, private link connectivity to data warehouses.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Build, lead, and coach a team of 8-12 engineers to manage the infrastructure for the dbt platform and report to the Director of Infrastructure
• Empower your team to achieve big goals by giving them product and business context and supporting team ownership of the roadmap, product development lifecycle, and technical excellence.
• Dive deep into our product to frame tradeoffs and make decisions about what, how, and when we build.
• Partner with Product Marketing, Solutions Architecture, and Customer Support to build delightful migration experiences, helping our customers seamlessly move off legacy deployments.
• Coach engineers in product thinking, quality, and software engineering. Build individualized growth plans and match interests and capabilities to team goals.
• Work with peer managers to evolve organizational processes like product training, technical decision making, project execution, and planning.

Mandatory skills

• 5+ years in people management with a software or infrastructure engineering team
• Experience managing senior individual contributors (Staff+ level).
• Experience supporting a cloud-based infrastructure