3 months ago
Base Salary
$184k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Research retrieval, reasoning, and agentic AI techniques and determine which ideas belong on the product roadmap
- Prototype ideas rapidly and turn validated concepts into production-grade features
- Define technical direction spanning multiple teams within Fivetran AI
- Build and maintain backend and frontend systems, including Agents Schema pipelines and the Context Catalog UI
- Advance AISQL, translating natural language to SQL grounded in dbt metric definitions and executing it against data warehouses
- Own production reliability through on-call participation, 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 translate product and leadership direction into concrete execution plans
- 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
- Ability to work fluidly across backend and frontend engineering
- Ability to read AI/ML research and turn promising findings into prototypes and production systems
- Strong product and market awareness for evaluating emerging techniques
- Experience 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
- Experience writing performant code and improving unfamiliar codebases
- Experience using coding agents or similar AI tooling
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across teams
- Ability to thrive in a startup-like environment with shifting priorities and high ownership
- Bonus: experience with RAG pipelines, embeddings, evaluation frameworks, agent frameworks, semantic layers, MCP, site reliability engineering, data processing, data connectors, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, or open-source AI and data projects
Benefits
- Full-time hybrid position based in Austin, Texas, with two days in the office each week and remote flexibility
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance, subject to country and worker type
- Generous paid time off, 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
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.