3 months ago
Base Salary
$196k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Research retrieval, reasoning, and agentic AI techniques and determine their product value
- Prototype promising ideas and turn validated concepts into production-grade features
- Define technical direction across multiple Fivetran AI teams
- Build and maintain backend and frontend systems, including Agents Schema pipelines and the Context Catalog UI
- Advance AISQL for natural-language-to-SQL queries grounded in dbt metric definitions and executed against warehouses
- Own production reliability through on-call, incident response, and SRE work
- Set testing and QA standards and perform hands-on QA when needed
- Use coding agents to automate repetitive engineering work
- Independently define and execute plans from product and leadership direction
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the team
- Participate in and help shape the hiring and interview process
Requirements
- 8+ years of programming experience across Python and/or Java
- Trusted-expert status with the ability to influence multiple teams and define technical direction
- Ability to read AI/ML research and turn promising findings into prototypes and production systems
- Strong product and market judgment regarding emerging AI techniques
- Track record of independently executing work from ambiguous, high-level direction
- 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 structured, performant code and improve unfamiliar codebases
- Experience using coding agents or similar AI tooling
- Demonstrated mentoring and cross-team technical influence
- Ability to thrive in a startup-like environment with shifting priorities and high ownership
- 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: MCP ecosystem or AI agent integration experience
- Bonus: site reliability engineering, data processing, ETL/ELT, data connectors, cloud environments, Docker, or open-source AI/data contributions
Benefits
- Full-time hybrid position based in Oakland, California, with two days in the office each week and remote flexibility
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance, subject to country and worker type
- Generous PTO, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, holidays, and volunteer days
- 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 with therapy, coaching, and mindfulness resources
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.