About us

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.

About the role

We’re looking for a product-minded software engineer to join the team building Dagster+, our hosted SaaS product, to help make Dagster the de facto cloud solution for organizations to manage their data platform with AI-native tooling. In this role, you will drive improvements to Dagster’s backend system, agentic platform, and product UI to unlock new capabilities for our users. You will solve difficult technical problems throughout the software stack and work collaboratively with the rest of the team to plan and execute. You will instrument, monitor, debug, and optimize distributed & agentic systems from end to end. You’ll talk directly to our users (data engineers and platform owners) to understand how best to improve our product.

This is a full-time, competitively paid position with benefits. We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis. We have team members all over the U.S. and we are hiring fully remote candidates in the U.S. Every employee is provided a remote work stipend to cover the cost of home office equipment and anything else that makes your remote work location comfortable, productive, or successful. And if you’d rather not work from home, we’ll cover the cost of a coworking or office space if you’re fully remote.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute product development initiatives from prototype to user adoption, in collaboration with product and design and your peers in engineering
• Participate in technical architecture discussions and help the team make key technical decisions.
• Solve difficult technical problems throughout the software stack and get projects over the finish line, across front-end, back-end, or infrastructure.
• Proactively identify and address opportunities for enhancement—be it in code quality, user experience, or overall performance—and lead initiatives to make these improvements happen.

Must-have Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant software development experience
• Fluency in Python or a similar high-level programming language, and proficiency with frontend development (we use React)
• Expertise across the full software development lifecycle, from planning to delivery and iteration
• Experience in a high-functioning engineering organization working on B2B SaaS applications or large-scale distributed systems
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Proven effectiveness at contributing to and executing as part of a team

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Experience with agentic product development, including MCP, skills, and evals
• Experience building services on Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes & Postgres
• Experience with Dagster or related data orchestrators
• Experience with using or supporting tools in the Modern Data Stack
• Experience engaging directly with users for research and support

You belong here

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.

Our Stack

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 $190,000 - $225,000.

Other resources

• What is Dagster, a guide to the problems we solve and the philosophy driving our approach
• A Look Inside the Dagster Labs Culture
• Our Latest Dagster Release
• Introducing the new Dagster+ UI
• Introducing Compass

About us

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, and the best AI companies are built on top of Dagster.

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 each other 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.

About the role

We're looking for a product-minded software engineer to help make Dagster the platform of choice for large organizations. The Enterprise Readiness team at Dagster helps our largest customers be successful with Dagster, and you’ll make a direct impact by solving real-world problems and delivering meaningful solutions for our users and customers.

You'll work on Dagster+, our hosted cloud product, building the features and infrastructure that enterprise customers depend on — from scaling the platform to handle massive workloads, to building enterprise-grade security, billing, and administration capabilities. You'll solve hard distributed systems problems, ship features that directly unblock our largest customers, and help define the technical direction of our enterprise product. While you'll have direct access to customer feedback to inform your work, this is a software engineering role - you'll spend your time designing, building, and shipping code.

This is a full-time, competitively paid position with benefits. We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis. We have team members all over the U.S. and we are hiring fully remote candidates in the U.S. Every employee is provided a remote work stipend to cover the cost of home office equipment and anything else that makes your remote work location comfortable, productive, or successful. And if you’d rather not work from home, we’ll cover the cost of a coworking or office space if you’re fully remote.

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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Architect and build backend systems that serve our largest customers running thousands of concurrent workloads
• Collaborate with product and design to plan and ship features that unlock new enterprise use cases
• Use direct customer feedback to inform priorities, but focus your time on building software, not consulting
• 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.

Must-have Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant software development experience
• Fluent in one or multiple high-level programming languages; we primarily use Python
• Expertise across the full software development lifecycle, from planning to delivery and iteration
• Comfort working across the stack: backend, infrastructure, and occasionally frontend
• Experience building and operating B2B SaaS or large-scale distributed systems
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Proven effectiveness at contributing to and executing as part of a team

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Experience building enterprise features: auth/SSO, RBAC, billing systems, multi-tenancy
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code
• Interest in progressing into a tech lead role
• Experience with Dagster or data orchestration platforms
• Experience engaging with enterprise customers to understand technical requirements

You belong here

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.

Our Stack

Dagster is built in Python and TypeScript to work on macOS, Posix, and Windows. We use GraphQL, Apollo, and React to develop beautiful frontend tooling. We integrate with a wide range of databases, data warehouses, orchestration engines, compute substrates, and cloud services.

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

Other resources:

• The launch of Dagster blog post
• Launching Dagster Cloud to GA blog post
• Dagster Day 2022 video playlist
• Our latest major release
• Software-Defined Assets blog post, Data Council talk, and animated explainer
• Our latest episode on the Data Engineering Podcast
• Our philosophy on code reviews