Senior Platform & API Engineer — Scale & Security

Fivetran; Ireland; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Fivetran is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the dbt Platform Services teams. You will build and maintain stable, scalable services foundational to the dbt platform cloud product, apply solid architectural principles, and redesign external APIs to power improved user experiences.

You will collaborate across product, security, QA and customer support, mentor junior engineers, contribute to API-driven apps using REST and gRPC, and help enforce high programming standards with tests.

Qualifications

• Proficient in object-oriented design and scalable API development.
• Experience designing REST and/or gRPC APIs for cloud services.
• Familiarity with security concepts and authentication protocols (SAML/OIDC).
• Strong collaboration with product, security and QA teams.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and drive code quality.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain stable, scalable foundational services.
• Redesign external APIs to improve user experiences.
• Collaborate with product, security, QA and support teams.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers across engineering.
• Ensure high coding standards with comprehensive tests.
• Support and evolve APIs through multiple iterations.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

REST APIs

gRPC

API design

Security mindset

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Code reviews

Unit/integration tests

Authentication protocols (SAML/OIDC)

Tools

Datadog

Job description

Fivetran is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the dbt Platform Services teams. You will build and maintain stable, scalable services foundational to the dbt platform cloud product, apply solid architectural principles, and redesign external APIs to power improved user experiences.

You will collaborate across product, security, QA and customer support, mentor junior engineers, contribute to API-driven apps using REST and gRPC, and help enforce high programming standards with tests.