4 hours ago
Base Salary
$162k - $199k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead design and delivery of complex team-level projects across Metadata services
- Design and develop new subsystem architectures and own team-level subsystems end to end
- Review and approve technical designs and identify deficiencies before release
- Drive technical initiatives across discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history
- Establish and uphold design, architecture, coding, and documentation standards
- Coach and mentor engineers and improve code quality through reviews
- Optimize critical code, follow through on incidents, and advance service reliability and performance
- Participate periodically in the on-call rotation
- Use AI tooling and agents across development and software development lifecycle artifacts
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience leading complex, team-scope technical work to completion
- Deep expertise designing and owning subsystems in distributed, cloud-based systems
- Ability to set technical direction and drive multi-engineer initiatives
- Strong design and architecture judgment with the ability to identify flaws and evaluate trade-offs
- Proficiency in a modern backend or systems language such as Python, Java, C++, or C#
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; Docker and Kubernetes; and development infrastructure
- Experience with test strategy, incidents, post-mortems, reliability, and performance
- Fluent use of AI code assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT
- Preferred experience with ETL or ELT, cloud-based data platforms, metadata, catalog, lineage, discovery or search systems, GraphQL APIs, high-throughput multi-tenant data services, and the dbt ecosystem
Benefits
- Full-time remote position with occasional in-person attendance at the Denver, CA office
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance, subject to country and worker type
- Paid time off, sick time, inclusive parental leave, holidays, volunteer days, and a year-end Global Week of Rest
- 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
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureC#C++DatadogdbtDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJavaKubernetesPostgreSQLPythonSnowflake
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.