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About the Role

Fivetran and dbt are building the open data infrastructure that powers AI agents you can trust. This role involves researching emerging techniques in the AI landscape, bringing product and market understanding to decide which ideas are worth pursuing, and shipping them as production software. The engineer will act as a generalist, prototyping, hardening back-end services, and performing SRE or QA work as needed. Fivetran AI operates like a startup within Fivetran, requiring engineers who thrive on diverse tasks.

Responsibilities

Research emerging techniques in retrieval, reasoning, and agentic AI, and evaluate what’s actually relevant to Fivetran AI’s roadmap
Prototype new ideas quickly, then take the ones that prove out and turn them into shipped, production-grade features
Build and maintain both back-end and front-end systems for the Fivetran AI product — from Agents Schema pipelines to the Context Catalog UI
Contribute to the AISQL capability: natural language to SQL grounded in dbt metric definitions, executed natively against the warehouse
Take ownership of production reliability: on-call rotation, incident response, and SRE work to keep the platform trustworthy at scale
Write and maintain tests, and do hands-on QA to catch issues before customers do
Use coding agents to automate the repetitive parts of the job, freeing up time for the research and design work that needs a human
Partner with product and design, bringing your own understanding of the AI tooling market to shape what gets built next
Develop software designs and contribute to the technical roadmap for the Fivetran AI platform
Contribute to hiring by participating in the interview process

Requirements

5+ years of programming experience across Python and/or Java, with the ability to move fluidly between back-end and front-end work
Considered a trusted expert in your subject area, capable of executing complex, ambiguous tasks with minimal hand-holding
Comfortable reading AI/ML research and turning promising findings into working prototypes
Strong product and market awareness — able to judge which emerging techniques are worth building versus which are hype
Experience with SQL and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar)
Genuine willingness to work across the full stack: research, backend, frontend, SRE, and QA, as the team’s needs demand
Writes well-structured, performant code and can dive into unfamiliar codebases to suggest improvements
Experience using coding agents or similar AI tooling to speed up day-to-day engineering work
Analytical mindset to identify gaps in existing systems and design practical, pragmatic improvements
Thrives in a startup-like environment with shifting priorities and a high degree of ownership

Skills

Python
Java
SQL
dbt
LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini)
vector databases
BigQuery
Snowflake
Databricks
MCP protocol
React
TypeScript
Kubernetes
RAG pipelines
embeddings
evaluation frameworks
agent frameworks
semantic layers
LookML
Sigma
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
data processing (ETL, ELT)
building data connectors
AWS
GCP
Docker

Location

New York, NY

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$174,915—$209,906.50 USD

Benefits

100% employer-paid medical insurance
Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, 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

About the Company

Fivetran's mission is to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity.
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, they are delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data.
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, they support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.
They are creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.
Fivetran is the epitome of data-driven development.
We emphasize using no-nonsense tools and take great pride in the simplicity and effectiveness of the systems we build.
Fivetran is honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers.
Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process.
If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this form.
We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience.
Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy.
We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.