Senior Software Engineer - Orchestration

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Overview

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,

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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 is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

Responsibilities

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→Design and implement features and performance improvements across the Metadata team's services — discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history
→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
→Break features into tasks, structure and execute your own project plans, and contribute to sprint and feature planning
→Collaborate with product managers, QE, customer support, and peers to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability
→Participate periodically in the on-call rotation, and be mindful of security throughout your work
→Use AI tooling — IDE assistants like GitHub Copilot, coding agents like Claude Code, and conversational AI — to accelerate development and to author and review SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, post-mortems, and test plans

5+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems, including designing and building backend services and reusable components from the ground up
Experience working with distributed systems and cloud computing concepts
Demonstrated ability to write well-structured, performant, and well-tested code
Ability to independently lead feature-level software and design work that satisfies project requirements, and to clearly explain design trade-offs
Can identify design flaws in existing systems and propose improvements
Experience with code reviews, design, troubleshooting, and testing
Proficiency in a modern backend or systems language such as Python, Java, C++, or C#
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience with continuous integration tooling such as BuildKite, and familiarity with observability tools like Datadog or Grafana is a plus
Fluent in using AI code assistants and coding agents to generate and investigate code, and conversational AI (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT) to research, author, review, and synthesize SDLC artifacts

Nice to Have

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Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based data platforms
Experience building or working with metadata, catalog, lineage, or discovery/search systems
Experience with GraphQL APIs and high-throughput, multi-tenant data services
Familiarity with the analytics engineering workflow and the dbt ecosystem

The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The compensation range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your location during the hiring process.

Oakland Pay Range

$174,915—$209,906 USD

What We Offer

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✓100% employer-paid medical insurance*

✓Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.

✓RSU stock grants*

✓Professional development and training opportunities

✓Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities

✓Monthly cell phone stipend

✓Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.