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Fivetran
Senior Software Engineer (Orchestration)
Skills
Google Cloud PlatformRustDockerPythonJavaC#PostgreSQLKafkaSnowflakeGraphQLDatadogGrafanaData AnalysisAIAWSGitHubKubernetesCustomer SupportAzure
14 days ago
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Contract type:
Permanent
Salary:
$174,915 – $209,906 / year
Location:
Oakland, CA, USA
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
10 October 2026
What they need
- 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
- You’ll own the design and delivery of features end to end, working across high-throughput APIs and data models to make them faster, more reliable, and more capable. You’ll write and review designs, raise the quality bar in code review, use the latest AI tools, and collaborate closely with product and QE to deliver work that scales
- This is a full-time, fully remote position.Technologies You’ll UsePython, Rust, GraphQL, Postgres, Snowflake, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Datadog
- 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- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with code reviews, design, troubleshooting, and testing
- Ability to independently lead feature-level software and design work that satisfies project requirements, and to clearly explain design trade-offs
- 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
- 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
- Experience working with distributed systems and cloud computing concepts
- Demonstrated ability to write well-structured, performant, and well-tested code
- Can identify design flaws in existing systems and propose improvements
- Proficiency in a modern backend or systems language such as Python, Java, C++, or C#
- Experience with continuous integration tooling such as BuildKite, and familiarity with observability tools like Datadog or Grafana is a plus
- 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
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