2 months ago
Base Salary
$226k - $282k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering-wide transformation from AI-curious to AI-native development practices
- Evaluate emerging AI tools and recommend solutions based on technical and business value
- Design frameworks for integrating AI tools into development workflows and CI/CD pipelines
- Lead proof-of-concepts for coding agents covering standardized tasks such as Lite Connectors via CoIL, refactoring, and test generation
- Establish standards, best practices, guidelines, and guardrails for AI-assisted development
- Partner with Security and Legal to protect intellectual property and satisfy compliance requirements
- Optimize the performance and cost-efficiency of AI tool deployments
- Create adoption KPIs, track progress from 50% to 100%, and implement interventions to improve uptake
- Build communities of practice, adoption playbooks, training programs, and enablement materials
- Develop and execute a three-phase AI adoption roadmap
- Oversee a $1M+ annual AI tooling budget and demonstrate productivity gains, cost savings, and ROI
- Manage vendors, negotiate enterprise contracts, and influence vendor product roadmaps
- Collaborate with executive, engineering, finance, learning and development, legal, security, program management, and engineering management stakeholders
- Present adoption metrics, success stories, and ROI to engineering leadership and executives
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience across multiple programming languages and paradigms
- Hands-on experience with AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude
- Strong understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, and AI model capabilities and limitations
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and modern software development workflows
- Track record of evaluating and implementing new technologies at scale
- Experience driving technical initiatives across large engineering organizations and influencing senior technical leaders without direct authority
- Successful engineering change-management experience and ability to translate technical innovation into business value
- Experience presenting to C-level executives and board members
- Experience driving tool adoption across diverse technical teams and building training or enablement materials
- Data-driven approach to measuring and improving adoption, with strong communication, patience, and empathy
- Preferred experience with Fivetran’s technology stack, developer productivity, platform engineering, DevEx, virtual agents or coding assistants in production, AI/ML fundamentals, enterprise AI governance, or high-growth SaaS companies
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance
- Generous paid time off, paid sick time, inclusive 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 role based in Oakland with two days in the office each week
Tech Stack
AWSBazelCCircleCIDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLPostgreSQLPythonReact
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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.