About Us
Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help analysts create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt Labs pioneered the practice of analytics engineering, built the primary tool in the analytics engineering toolbox, and has been fortunate enough to see a fantastic community coalesce to help push the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow. Today there are 30,000 companies using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and over 4,100 dbt Cloud customers. You can learn more about our values here.
We’re looking to hire a Solutions Architect, Enterprise to join the Field Engineering team. As a Solutions Architect, you will lead the evaluation, implementation, and adoption of dbt for our largest enterprise & commercial customers. Preference for candidates based in Boston, Massachusetts.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Become an expert in designing enterprise-grade data pipelines with dbt Cloud
- Work hand-in-hand with sales to communicate the technical value of the dbt Labs suite of products
- Guide customers through proof-of-concept implementations and facilitate trials of dbt Cloud
- Work with engineering to deploy dbt Cloud in private clouds for enterprise clients
- Own the full customer lifecycle from pre-sale evaluation to product adoption and expansion
- Work with product to build and maintain the dbt Cloud enterprise roadmap
- Build close relationships with our Partners (including companies like Snowflake, AWS, and Databricks) and enable them to adopt and implement dbt for their clients
- Be an active member of the dbt community
We are looking for someone who has:
- 4+ years of sales engineering, solutions architecture, or consulting in data operations, analytics, or BI
- A solid technical background, with experience in SQL, ETL, and data modeling
- A firm understanding of and ability to discuss modern data warehousing architectures
- Ability to gather and translate technical and business requirements into concrete solutions
- Excellent verbal, written, and in-person communication skills to discuss complex topics with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to operate in an ambiguous and fast-paced work environment
- A passion for being an inclusive teammate and involved member of the community
Nice to haves:
- Prior experience working at an analytics, ETL, BI, and/or open-sourced software
- Knowledge of or prior experience with dbt
- Experience with Data Modeling methods such as dimensional, data vault, Kimball, 3NF
- Experience with traditional Enterprise ETL tooling (Informatica, Boomi, Talend)
If you are excited about this role and know that you could get there, but don’t have 100% of the qualifications listed above, please still apply! We value diverse perspectives and want to build the best team we can, and acknowledge that sometimes the right people won’t check every box on a list.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Equity Stake
- Benefits:
- dbt Labs offers:
- Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
- 401k with a 3% guaranteed contribution
- Excellent healthcare
- Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness stipend
- Home office stipend, and more!
- dbt Labs offers:
*Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal limitations
What to expect in the hiring process (all video interviews unless accommodations are needed):
- Interview with Talent Acquisition Partner
- Interview with Hiring Manager
- Technical Screen
- Team Interviews, including a mock demo
Who we are
At dbt Labs, we have developed strong opinions on how companies should practice analytics.
Specifically, we believe that:
- Code-based transformations offer unmatched flexibility and transparency across various “multi-player” development to power everyone in the organization to collaborate on a common language
- Data analysts should adopt similar practices and tools to software developers
- Critical analytics infrastructure should be controlled by its users as open source software
- Analytic code itself — not just analytics tools — will increasingly be open source
It turns out that a lot of other people believe this too! Today, there are 30,000 companies using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and 4,100 companies paying for dbt Cloud. Our customers include JetBlue, Hubspot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. dbt is synonymous with the practice of analytics engineering, defining an entire industry. We’re backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter.
dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes a diversity of perspectives, people, and backgrounds regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. We feel strongly that whether or not your experience exactly fits the job description, your passion and skills will stand out and set you apart even if your career has taken some twists and turns. If you are on the fence about whether you meet our requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway! Please reach out to us directly at [email protected] if you need assistance or an accommodation.
Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page here.
dbt Labs reserves the right to amend or withdraw the posting at any time. For employees outside the United States, dbt Labs offers a competitive benefits package. Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal or country limitations.
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What We Do
At dbt Labs, we make data work. Our open-source software, dbt, enables anyone who knows SQL to engineer, document, and test data pipelines. By empowering analysts to work like and with data engineers, dbt drastically increases an organization's ability to model and serve analytics. We’ve built a community of 50,000+ people and are backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. dbt is already used and loved by thousands of companies and dbt Cloud enables this workflow at scale.
dbt Labs headquarters are in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but we are a distributed team and advocate for a remote-first culture. We want our people to work from the places where they are happiest, healthiest, and most inspired to do great things.
Why Work With Us
At dbt Labs, we bring our whole selves to work. We bring our interests and experiences, our cultural influences, our physical and emotional needs, our communication styles and lifestyles, our values, and our curiosity. We have built a lot of trust in each other, and we work hard to be worthy of it.
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