Fivetran
Senior Software Engineer - Orchestration
$175K–$210K
Oakland, California, United States +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- Oakland, California, United States
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.
- Write and review technical designs and code; troubleshoot production issues and follow up with post-mortems and mitigation plans.
- Plan and deliver features with product, QE, support, and engineering peers; use AI tools to accelerate development and produce or review SDLC artifacts.
What they ask for
- Experience designing and building backend services and reusable components, and working with distributed systems and cloud computing.
- Demonstrated ability to write performant, well-structured, well-tested code and independently lead feature-level design and implementation.
- Proficiency in a modern backend or systems language such as Python, Java, C++, or C#.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and with Docker or Kubernetes; fluent use of AI code assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI for code and SDLC artifacts.
Nice to have
- Experience with ETL/ELT, cloud data platforms, metadata, catalog, lineage, or discovery/search systems.
- Experience with GraphQL APIs and high-throughput multi-tenant data services, or familiarity with analytics engineering and the dbt ecosystem.
Pay
$174,915 — $209,906 USD (target new-hire compensation range; pay type not specified)
Tools
Python, Rust, GraphQL, Postgres, Snowflake, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker
AI focus
Use IDE assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI to accelerate development and generate, investigate, research, author, review, and synthesize code and SDLC artifacts.
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