Senior Manager, dbt Fusion
Hybrid (Oakland, CA)$240.9k - $301.1kfull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Core team behind dbt V2, Rust-based engine for dbt Fusion, with cross-functional collaboration across engine, IDE, adapters, warehouses, and LakeCompute.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a fluid team of approximately 8 engineers working on a critical part of the dbt product.
- Establish clarity across a technically demanding roadmap with multiple product and engineering stakeholders.
- Partner closely with Product to translate ambiguous requirements into realistic engineering scope, sequencing, and estimates.
- Help the team balance new feature development, engine maintenance, framework modernization, documentation, and the stability of a GA product.
- Guide end-to-end technical design across the engine and its integration points with orchestration, the IDE, adapters, warehouses, and LakeCompute.
- Support engineers in making sound tradeoffs across product value, technical quality, performance, compatibility, and delivery risk.
- Actively contribute to technical design and implementation alongside the team.
- Work with peer engineering leaders to coordinate initiatives that span multiple teams and systems.
- Build an environment where engineers can do high-quality work, grow their scope, and take ownership of meaningful technical problems.
- Help shape the next phase of dbt Fusion as a language-aware transformation engine used by the broader data community.
Qualifications
- Experience leading teams through multiple concurrent priorities and diverse integration points.
- Strong software-engineering fundamentals and prior experience as a senior/staff engineer, technical lead, or equivalent hands-on technical leader.
- Ability to lead or facilitate system design from problem definition through implementation and delivery.
- Ability to translate complex or ambiguous product requirements into credible engineering estimates, milestones, and tradeoffs.
- Demonstrated judgment in balancing roadmap delivery with reliability, maintainability, technical debt, and product quality.
- Hands-on technical orientation, including a willingness and ability to stay close to code and engineering details.
Skills
Required:Team leadershipSystem designCross-functional collaboration
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance
- Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, end-of-year Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to mental health support platform with therapy, coaching, and self-guided resources for employees and dependents
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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