# Senior Software Engineer, Semantic Layer

**Company**: dbt Labs
**Location**: Bangalore
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

dbt Labs is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Semantic Layer team. The team owns the systems that turn dbt models into trusted, reusable business metrics. The successful candidate will be a core contributor to MetricFlow, designing features, optimizing query generation, and hardening the open-source codebase.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and maintain core features of MetricFlow

- Own MetricFlow as an open-source project

- Collaborate with engineers across dbt Cloud, dbt Core, and the Semantic Layer service

- Improve performance, reliability, and observability of metric query execution at scale

- Partner with product, design, and developer-relations teammates to translate customer and community feedback into shipped improvements

- Write clear technical documentation, RFCs, and design docs

- Mentor other engineers through code review, pairing, and technical guidance

Requirements:

- Strong professional software engineering experience

- Deep proficiency in Python

- Strong SQL fundamentals

- Experience designing systems that involve parsing, compilation, or transformation

- Solid grasp of software design principles

- Excellent written and verbal communication

- Experience collaborating in a distributed, asynchronous team environment

Nice to Have:

- Prior experience contributing to or maintaining a popular open-source project

- Familiarity with dbt, MetricFlow, LookML, Cube, or other semantic-layer technologies

- Background in data warehousing internals, query optimization, or analytical SQL dialects

- Experience with CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and release engineering for Python libraries

- Exposure to building developer-facing APIs, SDKs, or CLIs

Why Join Us:

- Impact at scale

- Open-source ownership

- A team that values craft

- Competitive compensation

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- software design
- open-source development
- distributed teams

### Nice to have
- dbt
- MetricFlow
- data warehousing
- query optimization
- CI/CD

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