2 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, 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.