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About the Role

Fivetran and dbt Labs are merging to create a leading data infrastructure company. We are seeking a senior-level technical leader to architect, build, and lead our Semantic Layer, which transforms raw warehouse data into consistent, reusable metrics and analytical models. This role will drive the architecture, performance, reliability, and analytical power of the semantic layer, ensuring customers can efficiently query their data. Responsibilities include designing modeling and query semantics, building and optimizing the query execution engine, operating sync and compute services, and ensuring team technical excellence through code reviews, architectural contributions, and mentorship.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and lead the architecture of Fivetran's semantic layer, defining the modeling and query semantics that power metrics and analytics across customer data
Independently design and implement features and performance improvements to create highly scalable distributed data systems on the cloud
Develop, maintain, and test code
Drive technical direction and architectural designs across the team and owned services
Conduct design and code reviews
Understand and fix challenges related to performance and scalability of query execution over large data warehouses
Collaborate with peers, product managers, customer support, and other stakeholders to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability
Participate periodically in on-call rotation
Participate in the hiring process
Mentor junior developers and make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers' data infrastructure

Requirements

8+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems, including experience designing and developing reusable libraries, services, and platforms from scratch leveraging industry best practices
Experience working with distributed systems and cloud security concepts
Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with deep experience working with relational databases (Postgres) and data warehouses
Demonstrated ability to write well-structured and performant code
Ability to independently lead software and infrastructure design to satisfy project requirements
Can identify design flaws in existing systems and come up with improvements
Experience in code reviews, design, troubleshooting, and testing
Hands-on experience working with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP) and containerization methodologies like Docker and Kubernetes
Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like BuildKite; knowledge of observability tools like Grafana is a plus
Understand how to use AI code assist and coding agents to automatically generate code for features, bugs, testing, and investigation, and use conversational AI systems (like Claude, ChatGPT, and internal chatbots) to support researching, authoring, reviewing, and synthesizing SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, Postmortems, Test Plans, and Proposals

Skills

Python
Postgres
DuckDB
Data Warehouses
Kubernetes
Docker
GCP
BuildKite
Grafana
SQL
AWS
AI code assist
Conversational AI systems

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time
Remote

Experience Level

Senior-level
8+ years of experience

Salary/Compensations

$207,073—$258,841.50 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 merging to create a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.
We're honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion.
Our core values are Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe.
We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities.

Equal Opportunity

Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce.
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.