Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fivetran is a data infrastructure company helping organizations move, transform, and trust their data. The Staff Software Engineer will provide technical leadership for the Metadata team, owning subsystem architecture, leading complex cross-engineer projects, and improving design, code quality, reliability, and performance across metadata services.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of complex, team-level projects across the Metadata services, coordinating development across multiple engineers
- Independently design and develop the architecture of new subsystems, and own team-level subsystems end to end
- Use AI tooling and agents — across development and SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, post-mortems, and test plans
- Review and approve technical designs, ensuring they meet a high quality bar, and identify design deficiencies before they ship
- Drive technical initiatives across the team's responsibility areas — discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history
- Set and uphold design, architecture, and coding best practices, and hold teammates accountable for code quality
- Coach and mentor engineers, demonstrably improving the quality of code across the team
- Write technical specs, document common components, and keep the team accountable for necessary project documentation
- Fix and optimize critical parts of the codebase, drive incident follow-through, and advance the reliability and performance of the services you own
- Participate periodically in the on-call rotation
Skills
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of leading complex, team-scope technical work to completion
- Deep expertise designing and owning subsystems in distributed, cloud-based systems
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction for a team and drive multi-engineer initiatives across an area of ownership
- Excellent design and architecture judgment; identifies design flaws in existing systems and proposes sound solutions with clear trade-offs
- Writes exemplary, well-tested code that serves as a model for others, and reliably estimates and delivers sprint to sprint
- Strong track record of raising quality through code review, coaching peers, and enforcing accepted engineering practices
- Experience partnering with QE on test strategy and owning operational health — incidents, post-mortems, reliability, and performance
- Proficiency in a modern backend or systems language such as Python, Java, C++, or C#
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and managing dev infrastructure
- Fluent in using AI code assistants and coding agents to generate and investigate code, and conversational AI (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT) to author, review, and synthesize SDLC artifacts — and able to model those practices for a team
- Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based data platforms
- Experience architecting 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
Benefits
- This is a full-time, remote position.
- 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.
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