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 roleAre you a frontend-focused software engineer with a passion for intuitive product experiences, dev tooling, and data? Join the Dagster Labs engineering team, where you'll contribute to building and enhancing the Dagster platform, empowering organizations to create scalable and productive data platforms. You’ll work on across our product to channel the information-dense world of data platforms into UIs that are easy to understand, powerful, and loved by users across the globe.
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.
Responsibilities- Develop high-quality features, collaborating with product, design, and your backend-focused peers to build clean, reliable, and delightful product experiences
- Work directly with users to understand challenges and translate feedback into actionable improvements. Partner with product and go-to-market teams to deliver practical solutions that align with real-world requirements.
- Participate in technical architecture discussions and help the team make key technical decisions.
- Proactively identify and address opportunities for enhancement—be it in code quality, user documentation, or performance—and lead initiatives to make these improvements happen.
- 5+ years of relevant software development experience
- Fluent in JavaScript and React
- 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 UX design
- Experience with web performance optimization
- Experience with full-stack web development (especially Python or GraphQL)
- Experience with Dagster or related data orchestrators
- Passion for engaging directly with users for research and support
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.
You belong hereWe 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.
The estimated cash salary for this role is $190,000 to $230,000.
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
- Data Platform Week 2024 blog post & video playlist
- Our latest major release
- Launching Dagster Cloud to GA blog post
- A technical blog post on scaling our frontend
- Our philosophy on code reviews
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