Join Fivetran as a Senior Staff Systems Engineer to lead the development of AI-powered applications and enhance data infrastructure.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 5 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Design and implement features for scalable data pipelines
- Develop, maintain, and test code
- Conduct design and code reviews
- Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high-quality products
- Participate in the hiring process
Must have
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud security
- Ability to write well-structured and performant code
- Experience in code reviews and testing
- Hands-on experience with cloud technologies
Nice to have
- Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT)
- Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic/Grafana
- Experience interacting with continuous integration tools
Practical constraints
- Participate periodically in on-call rotation
- Two days in the office each week
Role intensity
40% coding
AI in the day-to-day
You will act as a trusted advisor on how non-engineers should use AI to safely develop, productionalize, and deploy apps.
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Senior Staff Systems Engineer at Fivetran is responsible for developing and governing a foundational code library for AI-enabled applications, while also collaborating with stakeholders to enhance these custom apps. This role requires expertise in Python, TypeScript, and cloud technologies, alongside a strong background in software engineering and distributed systems. It is well-suited for seasoned professionals with over a decade of experience who can lead complex projects and mentor junior developers. Fivetran's integration with dbt Labs highlights its commitment to building a robust data infrastructure.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 10, 2026. Last confirmed on Fivetran's careers page October 28, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Fivetran: Oakland, California, United States.
- Salary band is above the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$129,022).
- Starts above 96% of 28 comparable staff other roles in United States that list Python we track (median $173,000 across 16 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 15.4% of 272 comparable staff other roles in United States; React appears in 0.7% of 272 comparable staff other roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Staff Software Engineer role remote?
- It's hybrid — Fivetran expects some on-site time in Oakland, California, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Fivetran lists $232,338–$290,422 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Senior Staff Software Engineer role.
- Where is the role based?
- Fivetran is hiring for this position in Oakland, California, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Agent SDK, BigQuery, Claude API, GCP Cloud SQL, Gong, Kubernetes.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Fivetran targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Staff Software Engineer role at Fivetran.
From the original posting
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.
About Us
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 companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.
During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.
About The Role
Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. We're looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Systems Engineering team and lead the engineering behind our internal AI-powered application ecosystem.
This is a high-leverage, high-visibility role with three interlocking mandates. First, you will own the development and governance of a code library and set of agent rules that will serve as the architectural foundation for multiple internal AI-enabled webapps at Fivetran. Second, you will work with stakeholders to develop, productionalize, and enhance custom apps built on this foundation. Third, you will act as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership, shaping policy and governance for how non-engineers should use AI to safely develop, productionalize, and deploy apps.
This position sits at the crossroads of software engineering, platform architecture, and AI-assisted development. You will partner closely with business stakeholders and engineering platform teams across the company, translating a fast-moving, experimental "everyone builds" culture into production software held to a high standard of security, reliability, and maintainability.
This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland, CA office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.
Technologies You’ll Use
- Python, TypeScript/React
- Kubernetes, GCP Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL)
- BigQuery data sources, Claude API, Agent SDK
- GTM systems - Salesforce, Outreach, Gong, and Zendesk
What You’ll Do
- Independently design and implement features and performance improvements to create highly scalable distributed data pipelines on the cloud
- Develop, maintain, and test code
- Conduct design and code reviews
- Collaborate with peers, product managers, customer support, and other stakeholders to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability
- Understand and fix challenges related to performance and scalability.
- Participate periodically in on-call rotation
- Participate in the hiring process
- Mentor Junior developers
- Make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure
Skills We’re Looking For
- 10+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems - experience designing and developing reusable libraries and experimentation platforms for backend and frontend from scratch leveraging industry best practices
- Experience working with distributed systems and cloud security concepts
- 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
- Experience programming in an object oriented / systems language such as Java, C++, C# etc
- Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization methodologies like Docker, K8s
- Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like BuildKite
- Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic/Grafana is a plus
- Understand how to use AI code assist and coding agents to automatically generate code for features, bugs, testing, and investigation
- Ability to use conversational AI systems (like Claude, ChatGPT, and internal chatbots) to support researching, authoring, reviewing, and synthesizing various SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, Postmortems, Test Plans, and Proposals
Bonus Skills
- Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms
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