Job Overview
Location
India - Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 6, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Senior Software Engineer on the Semantic Layer team at dbt Labs, contributing to MetricFlow—the open-source semantic engine that powers consistent, governed metrics across BI tools, notebooks, AI agents, and applications.
- • Design, build, and maintain core features of MetricFlow including metric definitions, query compilation, dimensional modeling, and SQL generation across Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, and other data warehouses.
- • Own MetricFlow as an open-source project: triage issues, review external pull requests, manage releases, and engage the global community on GitHub and Slack.
- • Collaborate with engineers across dbt Cloud, dbt Core, and the Semantic Layer service to ensure seamless integration within the dbt ecosystem.
- • Improve performance, reliability, and observability of metric query execution at scale for thousands of enterprise customers.
- • Partner with product, design, and developer-relations teams to translate customer and community feedback into shipped improvements.
- • Write technical documentation, RFCs, and design docs; mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and technical guidance.
- • Join a remote-first, globally distributed team growing its engineering presence in India, working on foundational infrastructure shaping how organizations measure their business.
- • Contribute to a company that has surpassed $100M ARR, serves over 5,400 Platform customers, and is trusted by AstraZeneca, Sky, Nasdaq, Volvo, JetBlue, and SafetyCulture.
🎯 Requirements
- • Strong professional software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems.
- • Deep proficiency in Python, including modern typing, testing practices, and packaging.
- • Strong SQL fundamentals and understanding of how analytical query engines and data warehouses execute queries.
- • Experience designing systems involving parsing, compilation, or transformation (e.g., query planners, DSL compilers, type systems, rule-based engines).
- • Solid grasp of software design principles: clean APIs, modularity, testability, and backwards compatibility.
- • Excellent written and verbal communication to explain complex tradeoffs to engineers, PMs, and external community members.
- • Experience collaborating in a distributed, asynchronous team environment.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Market-leading salary and equity compensation.
- • Comprehensive health insurance.
- • Generous time off and learning & wellness stipends.
- • Home-office support for remote work setup.
- • Opportunity to be a public, named maintainer of a widely used open-source project.
- • Work on impactful technology used by tens of thousands of companies, including global enterprises.
Skills & Technologies
About dbt Labs Inc.
dbt Labs provides dbt, an open-source command-line tool and cloud platform that lets data analysts and engineers transform data in their warehouses using SQL. It enables version control, testing, documentation, and CI/CD for analytics code, integrating with Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and other cloud data warehouses. Founded in 2016, the company offers dbt Cloud, a managed SaaS environment, and fosters a global community of data practitioners adopting analytics engineering practices.
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