Fivetran
Engineering Manager, Metadata
$187K–$233K
Oakland, California, United States +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Location
- Oakland, California, United States
Denver, Colorado, United States, AMER
About the job
Leads the Metadata engineering team responsible for dbt platform discovery, catalog, lineage, and run history services, with accountability for delivery, technical quality, reliability, and team development.
What you'll do
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers while building an autonomous, high-trust team.
- Own project delivery and service reliability, performance, incident response, and technical quality.
- Partner with product and stakeholders on planning, backlog prioritization, technical direction, and communicating team impact.
What they ask for
- Experience managing and growing a software engineering team, including hiring, coaching, and performance and career-development cycles.
- Strong technical foundation for reviewing designs and code and making architectural trade-offs in distributed, cloud-based systems.
- Track record delivering complex projects on schedule with high standards for quality, reliability, and performance.
- Experience owning production services and driving operational health, including incident response, on-call practices, technical-debt reduction, and SLAs.
Nice to have
- Experience with metadata, catalog, lineage, or discovery/search systems; GraphQL APIs and high-throughput, multi-tenant data services.
- Familiarity with analytics engineering and the dbt ecosystem, or experience supporting enterprise or single-tenant customers with strict reliability and latency requirements.
Pay
$186,701 — $233,376 USD (base salary)
Tools
GraphQL, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT, dbt
AI focus
Use AI coding assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI to accelerate development and create or review SDLC artifacts, and establish these practices across the team.
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