Senior Director / Lead Software Engineering, Fivetran
$251.8-314.8k
Automated data movement platform
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Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$251.8-314.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make access to data s simple and reliable as electricity.
Role
Who you are
- Team leadership
- Architectural skill - able to see the simple and efficient paths
- AI coding tool proficiency and effectiveness
- Scope simplification
- For example, our required AI competencies for Engineering:
- Understand how to use AI code assist and coding agents to automatically generate code for features, bugs, testing, and investigation
- Ability to use conversational AI systems (like Claude, ChatGPT, and internal chatbots) to support researching, authoring, reviewing, and synthesizing various SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, Postmortems, Test Plans, and Proposals
What the job involves
- Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies
- We’re looking for a Head of Engineering for a dashboard and data modeling interface
- Must be an experience Sr leader, and also an operator proficient with modern tooling stacks and AI assistants
- Will be responsible for organizing and implementing much of the work around a new highly integrated product offering and an open source repo.You’ll also be responsible for ensuring the technical excellence of your team and owned services, by reviewing code, contributing to architectural designs, and mentoring your junior colleagues
- This is a full-time remote role
- Technologies You’ll Use:
- Python, Django, Javascript, Claude Code, MCPs, data warehouses, SQL, visualization libraries
- Manage small but world class all-star engineering team
- Own and implement many core product features
- Drive and execute deep integrations into existing products and platform
- Balance features, scope and speed
Our take
Fivetran is a data integration company focused on one simple idea: making data easy to move and use. It provides a fully managed platform that automatically moves data from hundreds of sources into cloud destinations, helping team centralize information without building or maintaining complex pipelines. So, by handling the heavy lifting behind the scenes, Fivetran allows organizations to spend less time managing infrastructure and more time working on their data.
This approach has a real and growing impact, with more than 700 fully managed connectors, Fivetran supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments and keeps data accurate and secure as it flows into analytics and AI systems. Trusted by over 7,600 customers worldwide, the platform helps businesses standardize how data is collected and shared across teams, breaking down silos and making insights more accessible. And the result is a stronger data foundation that supports faster decision-making and innovation.
In 2025, the company's momentum was also recognized with a Microsoft Marketplace Partner of the Year Award and a finalist spot for Microsoft's Americas Emerging Partner of the Year. These milestones reflect its role in helping enterprises modernize data infrastructure on Microsoft Azure and prepare for AI-driven workloads. By continuing to deepen its partnerships and focus on reliable, automated data movement, Fivetran is well positioned to carry this success forward as organizations increasingly rely on data s the backbone of future intelligence.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$565m
SERIES D
Jun 2020
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $727.7m
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
George Fraser
(CEO)George graduated with a PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Taylor Brown
(COO)Taylor studied Business Administration (focusing on design strategy) at California College of the Arts to Masters level.
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