Staff Software Engineer, Metadata
FivetranData Integration company
Toronto, Canada$162,157.50 - $198,877.25 USDLead
Andreessen Horowitz
General Catalyst
Matrix Partners
ICONIQ Capital
D1 Capital Partners
CEAS Investments
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead technical direction and architecture for the Metadata team, owning key platform subsystems.
- •Fivetran and dbt Labs are building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.
- •We're looking for a staff software engineer to be a technical leader on our Metadata team, which owns the metadata layer of the dbt platform.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead the design and delivery of complex, team-level projects across the Metadata services.
- •Independently design and develop the architecture of new subsystems, and own team-level subsystems end to end.
- •Use AI tooling and agents across development and SDLC artifacts.
- •Drive technical initiatives across the team's responsibility areas
- •discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history.
- •Coach and mentor engineers, demonstrably improving the quality of code across the team.
- •Requirements 8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of leading complex, team-scope technical work to completion.
- •Deep expertise designing and owning subsystems in distributed, cloud-based systems.
- •Demonstrated ability to set technical direction for a team and drive multi-engineer initiatives.
- •Writes exemplary, well-tested code that serves as a model for others.
- •Fluent in using AI code assistants and coding agents to generate and investigate code.
Required skills
PythonGraphQLPostgreSQLKubernetesDockerAWSGoogle CloudDatadogGit
Nice-to-have skills
Snowflake
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Benefits & perks
100% employer-paid medical insurance, Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), Paid sick time, Inclusive parental leave policy, Holidays, Year-end Global Week of Rest, Volunteer days off, RSU stock grants, Professional development and training opportunities, Company virtual happy hours, Free food, Fun team-building activities, Monthly cell phone stipend, Access to an innovative mental health support platform
Tech stack
PythonGraphQLPostgreSQLSnowflakeKubernetesDockerAWSGoogle CloudDatadogGit