Fivetran

Sr. Staff Systems Engineer

Fivetran
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10 hours ago
Oakland, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$203k - $253k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own canonical data models and define how business concepts map across marketing, sales, billing, and product operations systems.
  • Define and drive adoption of standards for data modeling, quality, testing, governance, and documentation.
  • Lead complex migrations, system consolidations, and core integration re-implementations through design, validation, cutover, and stabilization.
  • Build, review, and ship SQL and Python transformations and production data pipelines.
  • Design validation, reconciliation, monitoring, alerting, and data quality frameworks for integration health, freshness, and accuracy.
  • Lead root cause analysis and systemic remediation of complex cross-system data issues.
  • Translate business requirements into data models and technical designs while aligning technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Serve as a technical lead, review designs and code, and mentor engineers.
  • Maintain design documents and current- and target-state data flow documentation.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or a similar role, with deep business data modeling and transformation experience.
  • Expert SQL proficiency, including complex transformations, performance tuning, and large-scale reconciliation.
  • Strong proficiency in Python or TypeScript and experience building production-grade, tested data pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience with Salesforce, NetSuite, Coupa, Workday, or Zendesk data models, including a migration, organizational merge, or major re-implementation.
  • Experience designing and delivering large-scale ETL/ELT solutions and related data quality, validation, and governance frameworks.
  • Ability to evaluate short-term delivery versus long-term architecture trade-offs and communicate decisions clearly.
  • Ability to lead through influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Preferred experience with dbt or a similar transformation framework.
  • Preferred experience with iPaaS platforms such as Celigo, Workato, or Boomi and reverse ETL tools.
  • Preferred experience with AWS or GCP, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD for data pipelines.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML capabilities for data quality, matching, and automation.

Benefits

  • Full-time position based in the Oakland, California office with hybrid work indicated.
  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance, subject to country and worker type.
  • Paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
  • RSU stock grants.
  • Professional development and training opportunities.
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, and team-building activities.
  • Monthly cell phone stipend.
  • Mental health support platform offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness resources for employees and covered dependents.

Categories

Data Engineering
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About Fivetran

1,001-5,000 employees

Fivetran builds a managed data integration platform that extracts data from hundreds of SaaS apps and databases and loads it into cloud data warehouses for analytics and AI teams. Sold as a subscription SaaS service, it provides prebuilt connectors, automated schema management, and ELT/replication to destinations like Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and Redshift. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Oakland, it serves customers such as Autodesk, Condé Nast, JetBlue, and Morgan Stanley.

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