dbt Developers build, test, and maintain the transformation layer in modern data stacks — turning raw warehouse tables into modelled, documented, version-controlled assets that analysts and ML teams build on. Overlaps with Analytics Engineer; the dbt Developer title signals deeper dbt-tooling specificity.
Salary by Experience Level
Junior
$80,000 – $110,000
per year
Mid-Level
$115,000 – $160,000
per year
Senior
$165,000 – $230,000
per year
Required Skills
dbt Core + dbt CloudSQL (advanced, window functions, performance tuning)Snowflake / BigQuery / DatabricksGit workflows for datadbt tests and packagesJinja templatingPython (for dbt-python models)CI/CD for data (GitHub Actions, CircleCI)