[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Fivetran

Role Description

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. As a Staff Software Engineer working on dbt Fusion, you’ll help build a next-generation analytics engine written in Rust that significantly improves performance, correctness, and developer experience across dbt workflows. You’ll work on a modern, state-aware execution engine with deep SQL understanding across multiple warehouses, enabling faster debugging, smarter orchestration, and more efficient large-scale deployments.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to both open source and commercial code while shaping the future of dbt’s core platform. This position is a unique opportunity to work on mission-critical projects that will significantly improve the experience of our customers and developers. You’ll help build truly differentiated systems and engines that set us apart from other database technologies.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Operations, and Security to deliver well-architected, scalable compute solutions.
• Participate in technical architecture discussions with a focus on query engines, storage systems, and distributed database design.
• Build services, APIs, and experiences that support user delight, quality, high availability, and performance.
• Tackle ambiguous, open-ended technical challenges with strategic thinking, balancing technical constraints with user needs and product goals.
• Drive best practices in testing, observability, and system reliability.
• Champion a culture of technical excellence and innovation, influencing engineering direction across multiple teams or domains.

Qualifications

• Strong coding skills (10+ years) in at least one of the following technologies: Rust, Python, Go or Java.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• Proven ability to participate in complex projects and collaborate across functions.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, clear communication, and a strong sense of ownership.
• Interest in systems, data infrastructure, compilers, or analytical tooling, even if experience is primarily academic.
• Experience working on non-trivial projects (coursework, internships, research, open-source, personal projects) that required persistence and iteration.
• Willingness and enthusiasm to work across the stack and learn new technologies as the problem demands.
• Evidence of being self-directed and curious—you proactively learn new tools, languages, or concepts when needed.

Bonus Skills

• Contributions to open source database technologies projects such as Apache Arrow, DuckDB, MongoDB Runtime, or other analytical data systems.
• Expertise in database systems, query engines, or storage systems.
• Experience with performance optimization, observability, or large-scale query engines.

Benefits

• 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.