Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

US - Remote

About Us

dbt Labs was founded in 2016 to empower analysts to create and disseminate organizational knowledge. Since then, we’ve grown to become one of the leading brands in the analytics industry. Our product, dbt, is used by thousands of companies. dbt Labs is a remote-first, values-driven company with a globally distributed team. You can learn more about our values here.

We are hiring a staff-level Site Reliability Engineer to lead our observability and reliability program. Our goal — empower engineers to create reliable systems with full observablity. The result — reduce incidents, improve quality, increase reliability, and enable engineers to work more proactively. Doing this will require varied work: research, development, debugging, consultation, collaboration. This role has a tremendous opportunity to influence not only how we monitor our systems, but the methods and processes we leverage to achieve full observability.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Lead the engineering organization in designing and building observability and reliability solutions (e.g., infrastructure monitoring, distributed tracing, SLOs / SLIs, service catalogue, disaster recovery)
• Drive the incident management and postmortem process
• Partner with engineering teams to implement observability tooling in their infrastructure and services, bolstering organizational understanding of how to measure latency, traffic, errors, and system saturation
• Work with engineering teams to investigate and debug performance issues, help define more scalable architectures, and empower software engineers to understand how to build appropriate monitoring
• Drive strategic best practices and initiatives around improving availability, latency, and quality across multiple departments & cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Leverage tools/languages such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, PagerDuty, Helm, Istio, ArgoCD, Python, Go
• Act as a coach and mentor for more junior SRE team members and help level up the team

You are a good fit if you have:

• 10+ years experience in software or infrastructure engineering, 5+ years of those years experience in Observability related role
• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
• Strong technical leadership experience with observability concepts and tools
• Clear communication, ability to work cross functionally with multiple engineering teams across product and infrastructure
• Desire to coach and mentor more junior engineers

You'll have an edge if you have:

• Expert level experience with Datadog
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes
• Experience monitoring infrastructure in AWS and Azure cloud platforms
• Familiarity with cloud networking (DNS, loadbalancing)

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $200,000 - $250,000
• Equity Stake
• Benefits - dbt Labs offers:
• Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
• 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
• Excellent healthcare
• 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):

1. Interview with Talent Acquisition Partner
2. Interview with Hiring Manager
3. Team Interviews
4. Values interview with VP of Engineering

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Who we are

At dbt Labs, we have developed strong opinions on how companies should practice analytics.

Specifically, we believe that:

• Code, not graphical user interfaces, is the best abstraction to express complex analytic logic
• Data analysts should adopt similar practices and tools to software developers
• Critical analytics infrastructure should be controlled by its users as open source software
• Analytic code itself — not just analytics tools — will increasingly be open source

It turns out that a lot of other people believe this too! Today, there are 20,000 companies using dbt every week, 65,000 practitioners in the dbt Community Slack, and 3,500 companies paying for dbt Cloud. Our customers include JetBlue, Hubspot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. dbt is synonymous with the practice of analytics engineering, defining an entire industry. We’re backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. We recently raised our series D: read the announcement here!

dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes a diversity of perspectives, people, and backgrounds regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. We feel strongly that whether or not your experience exactly fits the job description, your passion and skills will stand out and set you apart even if your career has taken some twists and turns. If you are on the fence about whether you meet our requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway! Please reach out to us directly at recruiting@dbtlabs.com if you need assistance or an accommodation. 

Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page here. 

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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