Fivetran
Engineering Manager, Metadata
Toronto, Ontario, Canada +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 13, 2026
- Location
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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, overseeing delivery, reliability, technical direction, and engineer development.
What you'll do
- Lead, hire, coach, and develop software engineers while building a high-trust, autonomous team.
- Own quarterly project delivery and service reliability, performance, and operational health.
- Set technical direction, review designs and code, and coordinate planning and priorities with product and business stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Experience managing and growing a software engineering team, including hiring, coaching, and performance and career development.
- 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 while maintaining quality, reliability, and performance.
- Experience owning production services and driving operational health, including incident response, on-call practices, tech-debt reduction, and meeting 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 supporting enterprise or single-tenant customers with strict reliability and latency requirements.
Pay
$186,701 — $233,376 CAD (target new-hire compensation; base salary or total pay not specified)
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 and review SDLC artifacts, including TDDs, PRDs, post-mortems, and test plans.
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