Fivetran
Senior Software Engineer - Orchestration
$164K–$197K
Denver, Colorado, United States, AMER +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- Denver, Colorado, United States, AMER
Ontario, Canada - Experience
- 5+ years in the software industry.
About the job
Designs and delivers features and performance improvements for the dbt platform’s orchestration control plane, including its scheduler, execution harness, and results processing.
What you'll do
- Build, test, and optimize orchestration services and their APIs and data models.
- Lead feature-level design and delivery; review designs and code and collaborate with product, QE, and other teams.
- Troubleshoot production issues, participate periodically in on-call, and use AI tools to support development and SDLC artifacts.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software industry experience, including designing and building backend services and reusable components.
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud computing; hands-on cloud platform and containerization experience.
- Proficiency in a modern backend or systems language, such as Python, Java, C++, or C#; ability to write performant, well-tested code.
- Experience with design, code reviews, troubleshooting, and testing; ability to independently lead feature-level work and explain trade-offs.
Nice to have
- Experience with ETL/ELT or cloud-based data platforms, metadata/catalog/lineage/search systems, or GraphQL and high-throughput multi-tenant data services.
- Familiarity with the analytics engineering workflow and dbt ecosystem; CI tooling such as BuildKite and observability tools such as Datadog or Grafana are also noted as pluses.
Pay
$163,920 — $196,712 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Rust, GraphQL, Postgres, Snowflake, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker
AI focus
Use AI code assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI to accelerate development and generate, investigate, research, author, review, and synthesize SDLC artifacts, including TDDs, PRDs, post-mortems, and test plans.
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