Fivetran
Senior Manager, dbt Fusion
$228K–$285K
Denver, Colorado, United States, AMER +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- Denver, Colorado, United States, AMER
Oakland, California, United States, AMER - Experience
- No number of years specified.
About the job
Leads the Core engineering team building and evolving dbt Fusion’s Rust-based dbt V2 engine, balancing technical development, product priorities, and GA product stability.
What you'll do
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately 8 engineers, setting clarity across a complex roadmap and multiple stakeholders.
- Guide technical design and implementation across the engine and its integrations, while balancing features, maintenance, reliability, and delivery risks.
- Partner with Product and engineering leaders to scope ambiguous requirements, coordinate cross-team initiatives, and deliver the roadmap.
What they ask for
- Experience leading teams through concurrent priorities and diverse integration points.
- Strong software-engineering fundamentals and prior experience as a senior/staff engineer, technical lead, or equivalent hands-on technical leader.
- Ability to guide system design from problem definition through implementation and delivery, and to translate ambiguous requirements into credible estimates and milestones.
- Demonstrated judgment balancing roadmap delivery with reliability, maintainability, technical debt, and product quality; willingness and ability to stay close to code and engineering details.
Nice to have
- Experience with Rust or another systems programming language, compilers, query planning, language servers, IDE tooling, or developer platforms.
- Experience building data transformation, orchestration, warehouse, or execution systems; familiarity with Apache Arrow, Apache Iceberg, DuckDB, or ADBC.
Pay
$227,803.50 — $284,757.50 USD (target new hire compensation; may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role)
Tools
Rust, dbt Fusion, dbt V2, SQL, Apache Arrow, Apache Iceberg, DuckDB, ADBC
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