Staff Platform Engineer — Scale APIs & Cloud Infra

Fivetran; Dublin; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

PTO and holidays

RSU stock grants

Professional development

Team events

Cell phone stipend

Mental health resources

Job summary

Fivetran is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our dbt Platform Services team in Ireland. You will design, build, and maintain scalable full‑stack services that power the dbt Cloud product and its APIs.

You’ll lead architectural conversations, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, security and QA to deliver reliable, secure experiences for thousands of dbt runs daily. This role emphasizes security-minded software design, cross‑team influence, and a culture of technical

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with SaaS at scale.
• Proven ability to design and scale full-stack applications.
• Strong API design, system architecture and database skills.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers.

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 and balance constraints.
• Build services, APIs, and experiences that support user delight, quality, availability and performance.
• Work with Product, Design, Operations, and Security to deliver well-architected solutions.
• Define and drive best practices in testing, observability, and system reliability.
• Mentor engineers across the company and foster collaboration.
• Champion a culture of technical excellence and innovation.

Skills

SaaS architecture

Full stack development

Python

Go

API design

Distributed systems

Cloud (AWS)

Mentoring

React

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

Docker

Job description

Fivetran is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our dbt Platform Services team in Ireland. You will design, build, and maintain scalable full‑stack services that power the dbt Cloud product and its APIs.

You’ll lead architectural conversations, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, security and QA to deliver reliable, secure experiences for thousands of dbt runs daily. This role emphasizes security-minded software design, cross‑team influence, and a culture of technical