Fivetran

Senior Staff R&D Software Engineer, Fivetran AI

USA - Austin (dbt) · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago

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About the role

Fivetran is looking for a Senior Staff R&D Software Engineer to join our fast-growing Fivetran AI team.
This role goes well beyond standard engineering.
You'll research emerging techniques in the fast-moving AI landscape and bring real product and market understanding to decide which ideas are worth pursuing - and then you'll take what you've learned and ship it as production software.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain both back-end and front-end systems for the Fivetran AI product - from Agents Schema pipelines to the Context Catalog UI
Use coding agents to automate the repetitive parts of the job, freeing up time for the research and design work that needs a human
Define your own priorities and roadmap based on your judgment of what will most move Fivetran AI forward, with minimal oversight

Requirements

it must be explicitly codified, governed, and traceable.

Skills

10+ years of programming experience across Python and/or Java, with the ability to move fluidly between back-end and front-end work
helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.

Benefits

Set the long-term technical vision for capabilities like AISQL: natural language to SQL grounded in dbt metric definitions, executed natively against the warehouse

Company info

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.
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.
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.
Fivetran and dbt
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.
Skills We're Looking For

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