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Senior Manager, Dbt Fusion

Fivetran · Oakland, California, United States, AMER · On-site

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About Fivetran

Effortlessly centralize all the data you need so your team can deliver better insights, faster. Start for free. Backed by General Catalyst, Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Core team behind dbt V2, dbt’s next-generation engine. This is a backfill role for an engineering leader who can combine strong software-engineering judgment with people leadership, product partnership, and the ability to navigate a highly cross-functional technical area. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience leading teams through multiple concurrent priorities and diverse integration points
  • Strong software-engineering fundamentals and prior experience as a senior/staff engineer, technical lead, or equivalent hands-on technical leader
  • Ability to lead or facilitate system design from problem definition through implementation and delivery
  • Ability to translate complex or ambiguous product requirements into credible engineering estimates, milestones, and tradeoffs
  • Demonstrated judgment in balancing roadmap delivery with reliability, maintainability, technical debt, and product quality
  • A hands-on technical orientation, including a willingness and ability to stay close to code and engineering details
More about this role

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Core team behind dbt V2, dbt’s next-generation engine. This is a backfill role for an engineering leader who can combine strong software-engineering judgment with people leadership, product partnership, and the ability to navigate a highly cross-functional technical area.

The Core team is responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving the Rust-based engine that powers dbt Fusion. The team primarily works on the dbt V2 runtime itself, SQL language features powered by Static Analysis, and new ELT primitives.

The role sits at the center of several parts of the dbt product: the engine and orchestration, the IDE and developer experience, adapters and data warehouses, and our new compute offering, LakeCompute. You’ll help the team make sound...

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