# Staff Software Engineer

**Company**: dbt Labs
**Location**: India - Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dbtlabsinc/jobs/4641221005
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d0ee3e8e-4f6

## Description

About Us

dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, helping data teams transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights.

As of February 2025, we've surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Platform customers, including AstraZeneca, Sky, Nasdaq, Volvo, JetBlue, and SafetyCulture.

We're backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter.

## About The Team

dbt Fusion is building the next generation of data execution and connectivity infrastructure, enabling dbt workloads to run efficiently across diverse compute engines and data platforms.

As a Senior Engineer on the Fusion Adapters and Connectivity team, you'll design and ship core abstractions powering how dbt communicates with execution systems , leveraging Rust, Go, Arrow, and emerging open standards.

This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of systems programming, database internals, and high-visibility open-source development.

Your work will shape a foundational platform leveraged across the dbt ecosystem and the broader data community.

## You are a good fit if you have:

- Strong programming background in Rust, Go, C++ or similar performance-oriented languages.

- Experience designing or maintaining SDKs, libraries, connectors, or compute/data integration codebases.

- Exposure to data warehouses, query engines, Arrow/columnar ecosystems, or execution runtimes.

- A desire to build foundational platform components that other teams and community members rely on.

- Comfort working in public code review loops, async-first communication, and collaborative RFC processes.

- A mindset grounded in debuggability, reliability, and ownership in ambiguous problem spaces.

## In this role, you can expect to:

- Design, build, and maintain Rust-first connectivity layers, execution APIs, and adapter scaffolding.

- Partner with teams building the dbt compiler, semantic layer, and runtime to evolve adapter interfaces and system boundaries.

- Contribute to Arrow/ADBC and other open-source specifications or implementations, strengthening the data ecosystem.

- Own CI, testing frameworks, profiling, error reporting surfaces, and release readiness for Fusion adapters.

- Debug complex interoperability and performance issues across drivers, engines, and compute domains.

- Collaborate with internal and community maintainers to review PRs, write RFCs, and evolve public code architectures.

- Mentor engineers on systems best practices and contribute to shared patterns around resilience, debuggability, and API clarity.

## You'll have an edge if you have:

- Contributed to or interacted with Arrow, ADBC, DuckDB, Presto, DataFusion, Spark, ClickHouse, or similar engines.

- Experience shaping adapter/plugin standards, driver contracts, or architectural interfaces used by others.

- Familiarity with Rust async ecosystems (tokio, tower, tracing) or Go concurrency practices.

- Prior OSS governance experience , triaging issues, reviewing PRs, or working with community maintainers.

- An interest in building developer-experience layers or scaffolding frameworks for adapter authors.

## Qualifications:

- 6+ years experience in software engineering, with strong systems-level skills.

- 2+ years working in open-source, SDK, runtime, or low-level integration environments.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / related field or equivalent experience through industry OSS contributions.

## Skills

### Required
- Rust
- Go
- C++
- Arrow
- ADBC
- DuckDB
- Presto
- DataFusion
- Spark
- ClickHouse