Staff Software Engineer, Fivetran
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$162.2-198.9k
Office located in Oakland, CA
Automated data movement platform
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Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$162.2-198.9k
Office located in Oakland, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make access to data s simple and reliable as electricity.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of leading complex, team-scope technical work to completion
- Deep expertise designing and owning subsystems in distributed, cloud-based systems
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction for a team and drive multi-engineer initiatives across an area of ownership
- Excellent design and architecture judgment; identifies design flaws in existing systems and proposes sound solutions with clear trade-offs
- Writes exemplary, well-tested code that serves as a model for others, and reliably estimates and delivers sprint to sprint
- Strong track record of raising quality through code review, coaching peers, and enforcing accepted engineering practices
- Experience partnering with QE on test strategy and owning operational health — incidents, post-mortems, reliability, and performance
- Proficiency in a modern backend or systems language such as Python, Java, C++, or C#
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and managing dev infrastructure
- Fluent in using AI code assistants and coding agents to generate and investigate code, and conversational AI (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT) to author, review, and synthesize SDLC artifacts — and able to model those practices for a team
- Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based data platforms
- Experience architecting metadata, catalog, lineage, or discovery/search systems
- Experience with GraphQL APIs and high-throughput, multi-tenant data services
- Familiarity with the analytics engineering workflow and the dbt ecosystem
What the job involves
- Fivetran and dbt Labs are building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies
- We're looking for a staff software engineer to be a technical leader on our Metadata team, which owns the metadata layer of the dbt platform — the discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history services that let customers understand, trust, and act on what their data is doing
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll contribute to the technical direction for the team
- You'll own the architecture of major subsystems, lead complex projects that span multiple engineers, and raise the bar for design and code quality across the team
- You'll spend your time on the hardest technical problems, and multiply the team through design reviews, coaching, and mentorship
- Lead the design and delivery of complex, team-level projects across the Metadata services, coordinating development across multiple engineers
- Independently design and develop the architecture of new subsystems, and own team-level subsystems end to end
- Use AI tooling and agents — across development and SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, post-mortems, and test plans
- Review and approve technical designs, ensuring they meet a high quality bar, and identify design deficiencies before they ship
- Drive technical initiatives across the team's responsibility areas — discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history
- Set and uphold design, architecture, and coding best practices, and hold teammates accountable for code quality
- Coach and mentor engineers, demonstrably improving the quality of code across the team
- Write technical specs, document common components, and keep the team accountable for necessary project documentation
- Fix and optimize critical parts of the codebase, drive incident follow-through, and advance the reliability and performance of the services you own
- Participate periodically in the on-call rotation
- Technologies You'll Use:
- Python, GraphQL, Postgres, Snowflake, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Datadog
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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