Fivetran
Engineering Manager, Metadata
$187K–$233K
Denver, Colorado, United States, AMER · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
About the job
Leads the Metadata engineering team responsible for dbt platform discovery, catalog, lineage, and run history services, ensuring delivery, technical quality, and operational reliability.
What you'll do
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers while building an autonomous, high-trust team.
- Own project delivery and service reliability and performance, including incident response, technical quality, and SLA targets.
- Set technical direction, review designs and code, and partner with product and stakeholders on planning and priorities.
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 while maintaining 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 building or operating metadata, catalog, lineage, or discovery/search systems.
- Experience with GraphQL APIs and high-throughput, multi-tenant data services; familiarity with analytics engineering and dbt is also a bonus.
Pay
$186,701 — $233,376 USD (base salary)
Tools
GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT, GraphQL, dbt
AI focus
Establish team use of AI code assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI to accelerate development and author or review SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, post-mortems, and test plans.
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