Drimva

Fivetran

Senior Staff Software Engineer

$232K–$290K

Oakland, California, United States +1 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026

Location
Oakland, California, United States
Oakland, California, United States, AMER
Experience
10+ years of experience in the software industry.

About the job

Leads the engineering foundation and governance for internal AI-powered applications, productionizes custom apps, and advises on safe AI-assisted development.

What you'll do

  • Build and govern a reusable code library and agent rules for internal AI-enabled web apps; develop and productionize apps on that foundation.
  • Advise engineering leadership on policies for secure AI-assisted app development and deployment; partner with business stakeholders and platform teams.
  • Design, implement, test, review, and improve software, including scalable distributed systems; mentor developers and participate in on-call and hiring.

What they ask for

  • 10+ years of software industry experience, including designing and developing reusable libraries and experimentation platforms for backend and frontend.
  • Experience with distributed systems and cloud security; ability to lead software and infrastructure design independently.
  • Experience programming in an object-oriented or systems language such as Java, C++, or C#; hands-on cloud and containerization experience.
  • Experience with code reviews, design, troubleshooting, and testing; familiarity with continuous integration tools.

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of observability tools such as New Relic/Grafana.
  • Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms.

Pay

$232,338 — $290,422 USD (target new-hire compensation; base salary or total pay not specified)

Tools

Python, TypeScript/React, Kubernetes, GCP Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL), BigQuery, Claude API, Agent SDK, BuildKite

AI focus

Develops and governs internal AI-powered applications and agent rules, productionizes custom apps, and guides safe AI-assisted development. Uses AI code assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI to generate code and support SDLC artifacts.

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)