Fivetran
Engineering Manager, Metadata
$207K–$258K
USA - Austin (dbt) +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- USA - Austin (dbt)
Denver, Colorado, United States, AMER
About the job
Leads the Metadata engineering team responsible for dbt’s discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history services, delivering reliable and performant capabilities for customers.
What you'll do
- Lead, hire, coach, and develop software engineers while building an autonomous, high-trust team.
- Own delivery, reliability, performance, and technical quality of the team’s services and projects.
- Partner with product and stakeholders to set priorities, guide technical direction, and establish AI-enabled development practices.
What they ask for
- Experience managing and growing a software engineering team, including hiring, coaching, and performance and career development.
- Strong technical foundation 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 operational health, including incident response, on-call practices, tech-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 workflows and the dbt ecosystem, or supporting enterprise or single-tenant customers with strict reliability and latency requirements.
Pay
$206,699–$258,374 USD (target new-hire compensation range; whether base salary or total pay is not specified)
Tools
GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT, GraphQL
AI focus
Establish use of IDE assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI to accelerate development and author and review SDLC artifacts, including TDDs, PRDs, post-mortems, and test plans.
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