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From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About Us
Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data. Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on. Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions. As we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact. During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.
About the Role
Fivetran and dbt are building the open data infrastructure that powers AI agents you can trust.
Fivetran is looking for a Staff R&D Software Engineer to join our fast-growing Fivetran AI team. Your data stack was built for humans — but agents are the new primary data consumers, and they have fundamentally different requirements. Agents can’t intuit context; it must be explicitly codified, governed, and traceable. We’re building the governed context layer that solves this problem: Agents Schema, an open standard for storing agent-ready context directly in the customer’s own data warehouse, and Context Builder, the managed service that keeps it filled and fresh.
This role goes well beyond standard engineering. You’ll research emerging techniques in the fast-moving AI landscape and bring real product and market understanding to decide which ideas are worth pursuing — and then you’ll take what you’ve learned and ship it as production software. We’re looking for a true generalist who is willing and able to wear whatever hat the moment calls for: prototyping a new retrieval technique one week, hardening a backend service the next, then doing SRE or QA work when the team needs it. At this level, you’re expected to be a trusted expert beyond your own team — defining technical direction that other teams build on, taking high-level direction and turning it into concrete plans with a high degree of independence, and using sound judgment to decide what deserves your attention. Fivetran AI operates like a startup within Fivetran, and we need engineers who thrive on that range and ambiguity rather than staying in one lane.
Fivetran is the epitome of data-driven development — our engineering team is focused on building a world class product that:
We emphasize using no-nonsense tools and take great pride in the simplicity and effectiveness of the systems we build. Our back-end is built on Java, Python, Postgres, and Kubernetes, and our front-end is built on React and TypeScript.
This is a full-time hybrid position based out of our Oakland, CA office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.
Technologies You’ll Use
Python, Java, SQL, dbt, LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini), vector databases, BigQuery / Snowflake / Databricks, MCP protocol, React, TypeScript, Kubernetes
What You’ll Do
Skills We’re Looking For
Bonus Skills
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The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The compensation range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your location during the hiring process.
Perks and Benefits
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We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
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USD 196,033 - 245,042
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Most open roles are attached to an office and follow the hybrid schedule; a minority are posted as fully remote. Remote roles in the US are scoped to named states rather than blanket US-remote, with exactly one posting open to any US location. Remote roles outside the US are scoped to a single named country, such as Australia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the United Kingdom, or Costa Rica.
Pay ranges are published in US and Canada postings only. Roles in Europe and Asia Pacific carry no published band. Fivetran states that its ranges are determined by role, level, and location, and that individual pay also reflects skills, experience, and market demand. Some roles add a separate on-target earnings figure for incentive pay.
Restricted stock units are provided to all new hires, with refresh grants annually. The careers page also lists paid parental leave starting on your first day plus a baby cash incentive, two volunteer days off per year, free lunches, home office reimbursement, and a monthly cell phone stipend. Vacation, holiday, and sick time are described only as tailored to your location, with no day count published.
Yes, and Fivetran documents it. The company publishes a 2026 Benefits Overview for each of twelve markets, covering Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Serbia, Singapore, the UK, and the US, and links the full set from every job posting. Postings also note that employer-paid medical insurance and stock grants may vary by country and worker type. Health and retirement programs are offered to all full-time employees based on their location.
Fivetran and dbt Labs have completed a merger, and some postings carry dbt-origin location labels for Austin, New York, and Philadelphia, cities that are not on Fivetran's own office list. Wording in those dbt-origin postings can reflect dbt's earlier policies rather than Fivetran's, so treat the office expectation stated on the careers page as the current model and confirm the cadence for any specific role with the recruiter.
The careers page lists fifteen hiring departments. Alongside a dedicated Fivetran AI group, they include Engineering, Systems Engineering, Product, Business Intelligence, Customer Solutions Group, Customer Support, Sales, Alliances, Marketing, Strategy, Strategy and Operations, Finance, Legal, and HR.
Military Leave
Flexible Schedule
Free Snacks & Drinks
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