3 months ago
Base Salary
$164k - $197k/yr
Responsibilities
- Research and evaluate emerging retrieval, reasoning, and agentic AI techniques for the product roadmap
- Rapidly prototype ideas and turn validated concepts into production-grade features
- Build and maintain backend and frontend systems, including Agents Schema pipelines and the Context Catalog UI
- Contribute to AISQL, including natural-language-to-SQL grounded in dbt metric definitions and executed 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 work
- Partner with product and design to shape the product roadmap
- Develop software designs and contribute to the Fivetran AI technical roadmap
- Participate in the hiring and interview process
Requirements
- At least five years of programming experience across Python and/or Java
- Ability to move fluidly between backend and frontend work and work across research, SRE, and QA
- Experience reading AI/ML research and turning 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
- Ability to execute complex, ambiguous tasks with minimal hand-holding and take substantial ownership
- Experience using coding agents or similar AI tooling
- Ability to write well-structured, performant code and improve unfamiliar codebases
- Bonus: experience with LLM applications, RAG pipelines, embeddings, evaluation frameworks, or agent frameworks
- Bonus: familiarity with semantic layers such as dbt, LookML, or Sigma
- Bonus: experience with the MCP ecosystem or AI agent integrations
- Bonus: site reliability experience including monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- Bonus: data processing, ETL/ELT, or data connector experience
- Bonus: cloud experience with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, or Docker
- Bonus: contributions to open-source AI or data projects
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance, subject to country and worker type
- Generous PTO, 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 Austin, Texas, with two office days per week
Tech Stack
AWSDatabricksdbtDockerGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPostgreSQLPythonReactSnowflakeSQLTypeScript
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About Fivetran
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.