2 months ago
Base Salary
$175k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Research retrieval, reasoning, and agentic AI techniques and evaluate their roadmap relevance
- Rapidly prototype promising ideas and turn validated concepts into production-grade features
- Build and maintain backend and frontend systems for Agents Schema pipelines and the Context Catalog UI
- Contribute to AISQL, translating natural language into SQL grounded in dbt metric definitions and executing it against data warehouses
- Own production reliability through on-call rotation, incident response, and SRE work
- Write and maintain tests and perform hands-on QA
- Use coding agents to automate repetitive engineering tasks
- Partner with product and design to shape the AI product roadmap
- Develop software designs and contribute to the Fivetran AI technical roadmap
- Participate in the hiring interview process
Requirements
- 5+ years of programming experience across Python and/or Java
- Ability to execute complex, ambiguous work with minimal hand-holding and operate as a trusted expert
- Ability to read AI/ML research and turn relevant findings into working prototypes
- Strong product and market awareness for evaluating emerging AI techniques
- Experience with SQL and data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, or Databricks
- Willingness to work across research, backend, frontend, SRE, and QA
- Ability to write well-structured, performant code and improve unfamiliar codebases
- Experience using coding agents or similar AI tooling
- Analytical approach to identifying system gaps and designing pragmatic improvements
- Ability to thrive in a startup-like environment with shifting priorities and high ownership
- Preferred experience with LLM-powered applications, including RAG pipelines, embeddings, evaluation frameworks, or agent frameworks
- Preferred familiarity with semantic layers such as dbt, LookML, or Sigma
- Preferred experience with the MCP ecosystem or AI agent integrations
- Preferred site reliability experience, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- Preferred data processing, ETL/ELT, or data connector experience
- Preferred cloud experience with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, or Docker
- Open source contributions to AI or data projects
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance
- Generous paid time off, paid sick time, parental leave, holidays, and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Virtual happy hours, free food, and team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Mental health support platform with therapy, coaching, and mindfulness resources
- Full-time hybrid position based in Oakland, California, with two days in the office each week
Tech Stack
AWSDatabricksdbtDockerGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPostgreSQLPythonReactSnowflakeSQLTypeScript
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About Fivetran
Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, helps customers use their data to power everything from AI applications and ML models, to predictive analytics and operational workloads. The Fivetran platform reliably and securely centralizes data from hundreds of SaaS applications and databases into any cloud destination – whether deployed on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment. Thousands of global brands, including Autodesk, Condé Nast, JetBlue and Morgan Stanley, trust Fivetran to move their most valuable data assets to fuel analytics, drive operational efficiencies and power innovation.