Senior Engineering Manager – Infrastructure

dbt Labs

Senior Engineering Manager responsible for managing infrastructure teams and projects at dbt Labs. Leading engineers in developing seamless, reliable platforms across cloud providers.

Posted 4/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $223,000 - $270,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build, lead, and coach a team of 8-12 engineers to manage the infrastructure for the dbt platform and report to the Director of Infrastructure
Empower your team to achieve big goals by giving them product and business context and supporting team ownership of the roadmap, product development lifecycle, and technical excellence.
Dive deep into our product to frame tradeoffs and make decisions about what, how, and when we build.
Partner with Product Marketing, Solutions Architecture, and Customer Support to build delightful migration experiences, helping our customers seamlessly move off legacy deployments.
Coach engineers in product thinking, quality, and software engineering. Build individualized growth plans and match interests and capabilities to team goals.
Work with peer managers to evolve organizational processes like product training, technical decision making, project execution, and planning.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years in people management with a software or infrastructure engineering team
Experience managing senior individual contributors (Staff+ level).
Experience supporting a cloud-based infrastructure with complex resource requirements and global deployment strategy. You bring hard-won expertise on reliability, availability, performance, and security at the intersection of application and infrastructure.
Deep understanding of Terraform and cloud infrastructure state management

Benefits

Comp & perks

Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
Excellent healthcare
Paid Parental Leave
Wellness stipend
Home office stipend, and more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud infrastructureTerraformresource managementreliabilityavailabilityperformancesecuritysoftware engineeringproduct development lifecycletechnical excellence

Soft Skills

team leadershipcoachingproduct thinkingcommunicationorganizational processesdecision makingproject executionplanningempowermentindividualized growth plans