We do things differently...

Dagster Labs is the organization behind Dagster, the open-source project, and Dagster Cloud. We’re a small, well-funded, and collegial team with a proven track record of shipping open-source software with global adoption.

"The engineering culture at Dagster revolves around engineering excellence, innovative thinking, and constantly building. It's an excellent environment to learn from highly skilled engineers, while at the same time have ample freedom to explore new ideas and advance the data ecosystem."

Colton Padden

Software Engineer

Colton Padden

Software Engineer

“Even after decades in the software industry, I feel genuinely energized working at Dagster Labs with a real sense of growth and accomplishment. What I love most is being surrounded by sharp colleagues who care and I'm always learning through our collaboration.”

Shalabh Chaturvedi

Software Engineer

Shalabh Chaturvedi

Software Engineer

“Not only is it very empowering to be part of a team that trusts each other to get things done really well, one of the things I love most is that our core value of ‘Be Human’ is genuinely lived out by our team every day. Every single person at Dagster is so smart, thoughtful, and always willing to jump in and help; and that's something really special.”

Julia Helgert

Sales Operations Manager

Julia Helgert

Sales Operations Manager

“Culture isn't a buzzword here: It encompasses everyone having a voice, leadership supporting every function in the org with direct lines of communication and everyone rowing the boat the same direction to make the company successful.”

Sam Garcia

Enterprise Account Executive

Sam Garcia

Enterprise Account Executive

“Dagster is everything that is great about working at a startup plus everything that is great about working at a professional organization. There's a chance to make a real impact and have your voice heard, and our team also understands that efficient, diligent work makes for a better working environment.”

Naomi Mastico

Corporate Sales Representative

Naomi Mastico

Corporate Sales Representative

“What I love most is how much trust and autonomy I have here. I get to do meaningful work that directly impacts our users, and I can see the results of my contributions in real time. The transparency across the company means I always know why we're building what we're building.”

Alex Noonan

Developer Advocate

Alex Noonan

Developer Advocate

Investors

We are fortunate to be able to partner with some of the best venture capital investors in the business.

Values

Execute with ambition

We are a team that is intrinsically driven and executes with fierce urgency. We think big, aim high and are here to be the best at what we do. We value grit, resilience, and are able to persevere to get to the best outcome. We play to win and we do not mistake motion for progress, striving to quickly focus in on what really matters and avoid work about work

Respect the craft

We hold ourselves to high standards and trust each other to do the same. We do not believe that quality and velocity are at odds with each other, and taking our craft seriously means we can move fast with excellence. We we do what we say we’re going to do. We work from first principles and solve fundamental problems. We provide continuous, direct, and thoughtful feedback to one another in order to improve. When failures happen, we learn from them as an opportunity to improve our future outcomes.

Be human

Our workplace should reflect the full diversity of interests, backgrounds, and ideas of all of our employees. We invest in creating experiences to foster meaningful connections and encourage everyone to connect genuinely with colleagues. Building is hard and we believe it will be more sustainable, and we will have more fun when we engage authentically and inject some levity into our daily interactions.

Be a global optimizer

We optimize for the group, the company, and not just for the individual. We have a mutual responsibility to support one another to succeed and multiply our impact beyond the sum of our individual parts. We sometimes put aside the work that’s most important within our focus area to help with higher-priority work in other areas. We empower people to have sufficient context across the company to be able to work cross-functionally. We sometimes operate outside of our defined responsibility and never say that something is “not our job”. We act as owners, roll our sleeves up to pitch in, and fix problems and gaps that we see.

Developers, developers, developers…

We started off as an OSS project - our community has been with us the entire journey and they are the reason Dagster Labs exists. The developer experience at Dagster Labs is everyone’s responsibility. We are dedicated to doing everything we can to improve their experience working with data platforms. This means that everyone is invested in our community, their success and their sentiment towards our products.

Leadership Team

Nick Schrock

Founder, CTO

Nick is the founder of Dagster Labs. Prior to that, he was a Principal Engineer and Director at Facebook between 2009-17, where he founded the Product Infrastructure team and co-created GraphQL.

Pete Hunt

CEO

Pete previously led teams at Twitter, co-founded Smyte, and was a member of the early React team at Facebook.

Yuhan Luo

Product

Yuhan was a senior software engineer and tech lead on the data platform team at Yelp, where she focused on automating product analytics. She holds a master’s degree in business analytics from MIT.

Selina Li

Head of Operations

Selina is the Head of Operations. She previously worked at Google, Quizlet and Bain & Co.

Joe DiBartolomeo

Head of Sales

Joe is a go-to-market leader with decades of experience building sales organizations across enterprise software. Prior to Dagster Labs, he held senior revenue roles at Pluralsight and Qlik and most recently advised growth-stage companies at Georgian Partners.