Fivetran
Staff Software Engineer, Metadata
Oakland, California, United States · Staff+ · Full-time
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$25,154 more — $221,187 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $221,187 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll contribute to the technical direction for the team.
- This is a full-time, fully remote position.
- We do expect the successful candidate to come to the Oakland, CA office from time to time.
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
- 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
- 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
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction for a team and drive multi-engineer initiatives across an area of ownership
Requirements
- With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required.
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
- 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
- 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
Compensation
- The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role.
Company info
- From Fivetran's founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity.
- Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers.
- We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities.
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