Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Position Title: Staff Site Reliability Engineer
From Fivetrans founding until now, our mission has remained the same: 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. Were proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About Us
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, were 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.
As we bring our teams and technology together, were building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. Its an exciting time to join us: were 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.
About the Role
Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.
Were looking for a high-performance, experienced engineer to be a part of a team of Site Reliability Engineers. You will be working closely with engineering teams, product managers, as well as support, sales engineers and solution architects to build the future of the Fivetran Data Platform Reliability.
This is a full-time position based out of our Dublin office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.
Technologies Youll Use
- Cloud Service Providers(CSPs): AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Kubernetes: Managed Kubernetes services (EKS, AKS and GKE)
- Continuous Integration tools: github actions, Buildkite
- Continuous Delivery: ArgoCd
- Databases: Postgres and all the major Databases
- Languages: Go, Java
- Scripts: Typescript, Python, Shell
- IaC: Terraform and Pulumi
- RESTful API: FastAPI
- Cloud networking: Privatelinks in Azure and AWS, Private service connect in GCP and site-to-site VPN tunnels in all 3 major cloud service providers - AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
What Youll Do
As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, you will take ownership over the overall performance and reliability of Fivetrans infrastructure, the robustness of the deployment pipeline, as well as timely and effective incident response and resolution. You will take responsibility for the growth and stability of Fivetrans infrastructure, and be a key player driving effective incident response and overall issue avoidance.
- Responsible for ongoing reliability and robustness of Fivetrans production infrastructure by monitoring availability, capacity, and throughput.
- Evolve systems by adding reliability into our product roadmap
- Coordinate the re-prioritise or fix critical bugs for support or sales requirements as needed
- Make recommendations to production infrastructure by interfacing with engineering to ensure 100% availability
- Ensure scalable artifacts deployment to all environments by automation scripts
- Constantly monitor infrastructure vulnerabilities and remedy them by working with the security team
Skills Were Looking For
- Expertise in managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, and GKE).
- Knowledge of Cloud Platforms and related tooling: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), Terraform, Ansible, Buildkite, Pulumi and ArgoCD.
- Experience in Python/Shell scripting and Go Language. Bonus if you have Java.
- Experience with Linux operating systems internals and administration
- Experience with cloud networking like Site-to-Site VPNs, Privatelinks and Private Service connect (GCP)
- AI-assisted engineering: Experience using AI tools for code review, automation, incident analysis, documentation, and reducing operational toil.
Bonus Skills
- 5+ years of experience working with SaaS products at scale
- Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL
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Perks and Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, 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.
*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information
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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. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
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