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Senior Manager, dbt Fusion

Job Overview

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Core team behind dbt V2, dbt’s next-generation engine. The role sits at the center of several parts of the dbt product: the engine and orchestration, the IDE and developer experience, adapters and data warehouses, and our new compute offering, LakeCompute.

Key points

  1. Lead, coach, and develop a fluid team of approximately 8 engineers working on a critical part of the dbt product.

  2. Establish clarity across a technically demanding roadmap with multiple product and engineering stakeholders.

  3. Partner closely with Product to translate ambiguous requirements into realistic engineering scope, sequencing, and estimates.

  4. Help the team balance new feature development, engine maintenance, framework modernization, documentation, and the stability of a GA product.

  5. Led a software team through the full development lifecycle: discovery, design, implementation, testing, release, operation, and iteration.

  6. Worked on products with substantial technical complexity, integration surfaces, or platform dependencies.

  7. Successfully partnered with Product and other engineering teams to create a stable roadmap and make difficult prioritization decisions.

  8. Experience in data transformation, orchestration, query engines, databases, developer tools, compilers, language tooling…

Skills

RoadmappingRecruitingSQLInterviewingREST APIsStakeholder ManagementCommunication

Experience: Senior-level