Senior Platform Engineer – Scale & Secure SaaS APIs

Fivetran, Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fivetran + dbt Labs is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our dbt Platform Services teams in Ireland. In this role you will create and maintain stable, scalable services foundational to the dbt platform cloud product, and redesign external APIs to power improved user experiences.

You’ll join a collaborative team and, as a Staff Engineer, will mentor junior engineers, partner with product, security, and QA, and help drive security‑first architecture across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer developing SaaS platforms and applications at scale.
• Proficiency with backend languages and frameworks such as Python, Go, Rust, django, Node.js, Java, Spring.
• Strong understanding of API design, system architecture, and database management.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain full stack applications that scale with our growing customer base.
• Lead technical architecture discussions, ensuring the platform is performant, maintainable, and secure.
• Tackle ambiguous, open-ended problems with strategic thinking, balancing technical constraints with user needs and product goals.
• Build services, APIs, and experiences that support user delight, quality, high availability and performance.
• Work closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Security teams to deliver well‑architected solutions.
• Define and drive best practices in testing, observability, and system reliability.
• Mentor engineers across the company, fostering technical growth and collaboration.
• Champion a culture of technical excellence and innovation, influencing engineering direction across multiple teams or domains.
• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer developing SaaS platforms and applications at scale
• Proven experience designing and scaling full stack applications.
• Proficiency with backend languages and frameworks such as Python, Go, Rust, django, Node.js, Java, Spring.
• Strong understanding of API design, system architecture, and database management.

Skills

SaaS platform experience

Architectural discussions

Full-stack design

API design

Mentorship

Security mindset

Tools

Python

Go

React

Postgres

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Fivetran + dbt Labs is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our dbt Platform Services teams in Ireland. In this role you will create and maintain stable, scalable services foundational to the dbt platform cloud product, and redesign external APIs to power improved user experiences.

You’ll join a collaborative team and, as a Staff Engineer, will mentor junior engineers, partner with product, security, and QA, and help drive security‑first architecture across multiple teams.