Software Engineer - Enterprise Readiness (Experienced)

At Dagster Labs, our mission is simple but ambitious: to empower every organization to build a productive, scalable data platform. We’re the brains behind Dagster, the open-source tool developers love, and Dagster+, our managed cloud. From scrappy startups to global enterprises, thousands of teams trust us to power the data behind their analytics, machine learning, and AI breakthroughs.

We believe the AI era runs on reliable, high-quality data. That’s why we make data platforms easier to test, easier to understand, and actually enjoyable to use. Dagster is quickly becoming the backbone of how the world builds intelligent systems.

We’re a small, well-funded team with big energy and a track record of shipping software people rave about. We aim high and work as a team, holding ourselves to the highest standards and trusting eachother to deliver. We care about how we work together: no egos, no drama, just a lot of curiosity and a drive to make something meaningful.

If you want to help shape the future of data and AI and have fun doing it, come build with us.

Are you a driven software engineer who thrives at solving customer problems while improving a platform? The Enterprise Engineering team at Dagster helps our largest customers be successful with Dagster, while improving Dagster+ with features aimed at our larger organizations. We work on improving and extending Dagster to meet the needs of large organizations. This includes everything from eliminating scaling bottlenecks in the product to building new features and integrations to support enterprise use cases. In addition to technical skills, you’ll have a chance to work directly with customers implementing Dagster and synthesize their feedback into immediately actionable work that unblocks the customer and improves Dagster as a product. This is your chance to make a direct impact by solving real-world problems and delivering meaningful solutions for our users and customers.

This is a full-time position offering competitive salary, equity, and benefits. We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis. We’re open to hiring fully remote candidates who are currently authorized to work within the United States. We offer flexible remote work options so you can choose the environment that makes you most productive—whether that’s your home or a coworking space. Dagster Labs fosters a collaborative, remote-first culture, ensuring you have all the tools and support needed to thrive, no matter where you are.

You may need to occasionally travel to meet with customers when necessary.

• Develop high-quality features, tools, and integrations that help customers smoothly adopt Dagster, including tools for migrations and seamless integrations with databases, ETL tools, and cloud services.
• Work directly with users to understand challenges and translate feedback into actionable improvements. Partner with engineering teams to deliver practical solutions that align with real-world requirements.
• Proactively identify and address opportunities for enhancement—be it in code quality, user documentation, or overall performance—and lead initiatives to make these improvements happen.
• Improve and maintain critical systems that support Enterprise requirements.

• 5+ years of relevant software development experience
• Fluent in one or multiple high-level programming languages like Python or JavaScript
• Expertise across the full software development lifecycle, from planning to delivery and iteration
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Proven effectiveness at contributing to and executing as part of a team

• Experience with Dagster or related data orchestrators.
• Experience with data engineering, MLOps, or AI pipelines (e.g. ETL tools, Spark, MLflow, Hugging Face, etc).
• Experience with DevOps related technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, containers, CI/CD)
• Experience in a high-functioning engineering organization working on large-scale distributed systems or B2B SaaS applications.
• Passion for engaging directly with users for research and support.

We are committed to building an inclusive team and an open-source community where no one feels out of place. We know that teams with diverse backgrounds state their assumptions more explicitly, think more rigorously, and build better software. Plus it's more fun and interesting to work with a wide variety of perspectives.

You should apply to work at Dagster Labs if you want to work in, and help to build and strengthen, a high-performing software development environment where people of all backgrounds are welcome.

Dagster is built in Python and TypeScript, and runs seamlessly across macOS, Linux, and Windows. Our frontend is powered by React and GraphQL, delivering a modern, intuitive developer experience. We value engineers who are comfortable working across the stack and making thoughtful contributions.

The estimated cash salary for this role is $185,000 to $230,000.

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