Resident Architect (East)

dbt Labs, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 115,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading analytics engineering company is seeking a Resident Architect to join their Professional Services team. The role involves driving customer outcomes, consulting on architecture, and ensuring strategic customers adopt dbt Cloud. Ideal candidates have experience with data platforms and dbt Cloud, and possess strong communication skills. Join a fast-growing team that values transparency and collaboration, offering competitive compensation and unlimited vacation.

Benefits

Unlimited vacation time

401k plan with 3% guaranteed company contribution

Comprehensive healthcare coverage

Generous paid parental leave

Health & wellness stipend

Flexible stipends for home office setup

Learning and development

Office space

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in customer-facing technical roles.
• Deep expertise in at least one data platform.
• Experience with dbt Cloud for minimum 1 year.

Responsibilities

• Drive customer outcomes and manage multiple engagements.
• Consult on architecture and design for dbt Cloud.
• Provide critical feedback to improve customer experience.

Skills

SQL

Python

Customer Focus

Project Management

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Informatica

Datastage

Talend

Job description

dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, helping data teams transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights. Since 2016, we’ve grown from an open source project into the leading analytics engineering platform, now used by over 50,000 teams every week.

As of February 2025, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Cloud customers, including JetBlue, HubSpot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners:

• Code-based data transformations unlock transparency, flexibility, and collaboration
• Analysts should adopt software engineering best practices to build trusted data products
• Core analytics infrastructure should be open source and user-controlled
• Analytic code—not just tools—should be shared and community-driven

• Code-based data transformations unlock transparency, flexibility, and collaboration
• Analysts should adopt software engineering best practices to build trusted data products
• Core analytics infrastructure should be open source and user-controlled
• Analytic code—not just tools—should be shared and community-driven

dbt is now synonymous with analytics engineering, defining the modern data stack and serving as the data control plane for enterprise teams around the world. And we’re just getting started.We’re growing fast and building a team of passionate, curious people across the globe. Learn more about what makes us special by checking out our values .

Location:United States, East

About the Role

We’re seeking an experienced Resident Architect (RA) with a passion for solving challenging problems with dbt to join our Professional Services team. RAs are billable to dbt Cloud Enterprise customers and help achieve our mission to empower data developers to create and disseminate organizational knowledge.

What You'll Do

• Drive customer outcomes
• Be one of the first RAs on our Professional Services team - help build out a specialized role from the ground up
• Work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects - inclusive of implementation, troubleshooting configurations, instilling best practices, and solutioning MVPs and long term solutions to customer specific requirements
• Consult on architecture and design
• Ensure our most strategic dbt Cloud customers are adopting the product
• Collaborate with other internal customer facing teams at dbt Labs - Sales, Solution Architects, Training, Support
• Provide critical feedback to dbt Labs product and engineering teams to improve and prioritize customer requests and ensure rapid resolution for engagement specific issues
• Become a product expert with dbt in the context of the modern data stack (if you aren’t already)

What You'll Need

• You have 3+ years experience working with technical data tooling in a customer-facing post-sales, technical architect or consulting role
• You have deep expertise in at least one data platform (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift)
• You have experience using, deploying, or configuring dbt Cloud - working with dbt for minimum 1 year
• You are proficient in writing SQL and python in analytics contexts
• You look forward to building skills in technical areas that support deployment and integration of dbt Cloud solutions to complete customer projects
• You are customer focused - embracing one of core values that users are our best advocates
• You are highly organized. Comfort with technical project delivery - managing scope, timelines, and deliverables - this role will be staffed on multiple engagements at once
• You communicate clearly and concisely with internal and external stakeholders - demonstrating a capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• You thrive in a remote organization that highly values transparency and cross-collaboration
• You will travel 2-4x/year to company wide events
• You have the ability to advise on dbt Cloud recommendations, and build direction/consensus with the customer to move forward
• Experience with traditional Enterprise ETL tooling (Informatica, Datastage, Talend)

Remote Hiring Process

• Interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner
• An introductory interview with our Professional Services Regional Manager
• After that we’ll ask you to complete a take home task
• Team Interviews with a current Resident Architect and our VP, Customer Services
• Unlimited vacation time with a culture that actively encourages time off
• 401k plan with 3% guaranteed company contribution
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• Generous paid parental leave
• Health & wellness stipend
• Flexible stipends for:
  • Home office setup
  • Learning and development
  • Office space
  • And more!

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation packages commensurate with experience, including salary, equity, and where applicable, performance-based pay. Our Talent Acquisition Team can answer questions around dbt Lab’s total rewards during your interview process.

In Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York Metro, San Francisco, DC Metro, Seattle, and Austin, an alternate range may apply, as specified below.

Resident Architect Premium Salary Range

$130,000 - $155,000 USD

Resident Architect Salary Range

$115,000 - $140,000 USD

dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. Even if your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply—we value potential just as much as a perfect resume.

Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page .

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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