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Senior Software Engineer

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

Fivetran and dbt Labs is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. We're looking for a senior software engineer to join our Orchestration team, which owns the control plane layer of the dbt platform — the scheduler, execution harness, and results processing. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Design and implement features and performance improvements across the Orchestration team's services — the scheduler, execution harness, and results processing
  • Develop, maintain, and test high-quality, maintainable code, and optimize critical paths for performance
  • Write technical designs for feature-level work, actively seek feedback, and clearly explain the trade-offs of your decisions
  • Participate in and review technical designs and pull requests, providing constructive feedback to the team
  • Improve test coverage with comprehensive unit tests and refactor code to drive down tech debt
  • Troubleshoot and debug production issues, and follow up on incidents with post-mortems and mitigation plans
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.

Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.

Together, we're delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on.

Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.

As we bring our teams and technology together, we're building on the strengths of both...

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