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Posted July 31, 2026

Senior Software Engineer

Fivetran
Oakland, California, United States 94612 Full Time
Reference: 286177853

Remote, Ireland, EMEA

Position Title: Senior Software 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 + dbt Labs is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our dbt Platform Services teams. In this role you can expect to create and maintain stable, scalable services that are foundational to the dbt platform cloud product, based off solid architectural principles. Were also driving forward the next evolution of the dbt platform by redesigning our external APIs to power improved user experiences. From rethinking our core data model and entities, to scaling our APIs accessing state that power hundreds of thousands of dbt run executions a day, youll be working on some of the most crosscutting and high scale work at dbt Labs today.

Youll be joining a collaborative team of engineers; and as a Senior Engineer on the team, you will prioritize and tackle problems as they arise, working iteratively with product management, security and QA to deliver a great experience for our dbt Cloud administrators and end users.

Today we serve some of the largest data-driven organizations in the world, enabling them to make decisions based on the knowledge at the core of their business. Your work directly impacts dbt Labs mission by expanding the organizations we serve and the data practitioners we reach. You will have an opportunity to flex into a security mindset while bringing your software architecture and programming skills. You will also have an opportunity to mentor and guide other junior engineers across engineering and advocating for platform-focused security.

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

  • Python (Django), Go, React, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and Datadog. 

What Youll Do

  • Build and maintain stable, scalable foundational services that can be leveraged by other engineering teams, based off solid architectural principles and cross-team collaboration.
  • Collaborate with many internal partners and product teams to influence the design of our API surface
  • Design and develop reliable, secure, highly available and delightful experiences for both customer personas: the dbt Cloud admin and the end user.
  • Collaborate with Product Management, UX designers, Security, and Customer Support.

Skills Were Looking For

  • Have strong fundamentals in object-oriented programming.
  • Have designed and built API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC for API endpoints.
  • Have experience supporting and evolving APIs through multiple iterations.
  • Are able to balance speed of delivery with designing scalable, reusable components.
  • Are passionate about design and code reviews that help grow the team.
  • Are highly motivated and able to work autonomously.
  • Are ready to go outside of the teams realm when there are infrastructure-related dependencies and collaborate with other teams to aid the delivery of team features.
  • Ensure high programming standards by writing unit, functional, and integration tests.
  • Have a systematic problem-solving approach coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

Bonus Skills

  • Have worked with authentication protocols like SAML and OIDC and fine-grained authorization.
  • Have an interest in application-level product security.
  • Have built reliable, mission-critical software for external customers.
  • Have designed and implemented scalable architecture patterns.
  • Have experience with Datadog or other log monitoring services and working with it to debug production issues.
  • Have experience working on a distributed team.

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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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