Senior Software Engineer II, Cost Management

About the Team

We’re building a new frontier in Cost Management—helping customers gain clarity, control, and confidence over their cloud spend. As part of a fast-growing team focused on customer-facing cost observability, we’re scaling quickly from 4 to 10 engineers in just two quarters. With a strong focus on Python-based distributed systems, this is a great opportunity to shape the foundation of a multi-tenant SaaS product and make a real impact.

What You’ll Do

• Design and develop back-end services and front-end experiences that bring cost observability to life for our users.
• Contribute to a multi-tenant, distributed architecture, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to shape new features.
• Participate in (and later help lead) code reviews, and on-call rotations (starting later this year).
• As a team still in its early stages, you’ll have the chance to influence engineering culture, tooling, and processes.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong foundation in Python and experience with distributed systems, APIs, and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to multi-tenant SaaS systems and comfort navigating complex architectures.
• Experience or interest in gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Kafka, and modern CI/CD practices.
• A growth mindset, with enthusiasm for learning through retrospectives and team collaboration.
• Proven experience leading system design efforts and mentoring other engineers.
• Ability to take loosely defined problems and build cohesive, maintainable solutions.
• Comfort owning services end-to-end—from design and development to deployment and monitoring.
• Bonus: Experience with Rust, or interest in exploring it where relevant.

You'll have an edge if you have:

• Experience with Rust, or interest in exploring it where relevant.

Qualifications:

• Have 5 to 8+ years experience

Why Join Now?

• We're not yet in full production, which means you can help shape our path.
• You’ll be joining a team with a clear growth trajectory—and room for leadership.
• We're serious about becoming a good organizational citizen: everyone will be trained to interview, give feedback, and grow beyond code.
• Flexible on-call processes, supportive mentorship, and a focus on sustainable engineering.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary:We offer competitive compensation packages commensurate with experience, including salary, equity, and where applicable, performance-based pay. Our Talent Acquisition Team can answer questions around dbt Labs' total rewards during your interview process. In select locations (including Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and Seattle), an alternate range may apply, as specified below.

• The typical starting salary range for this role is: $172,000 - $207,900 USD
• The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed is: $191,000 - $231,000 US

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:

• An introductory call with a member of our Talent team
• A technical screen and meeting with the Hiring Manager
• A panel interview including multiple members of the Engineering Team
• A final interview with a member of our Engineering Leadership Team

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