Staff Software Engineer

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

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.

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 + dbt Labs is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our dbt Platform Services teams. In this role you can expect to create and maintain stable, scalable services that are foundational to the dbt platform cloud product, based off solid architectural principles. We’re also driving forward the next evolution of the dbt platform by redesigning our external APIs to power improved user experiences. From rethinking our core data model and entities, to scaling our APIs accessing state that power hundreds of thousands of dbt run executions a day, you’ll be working on some of the most crosscutting and high scale work at dbt Labs today.

You’ll be joining a collaborative team of engineers; and as a Staff Engineer on the team, you will prioritize and tackle problems as they arise, working iteratively with product management, security and QA to deliver a great experience for our dbt Cloud administrators and end users.

Today we serve some of the largest data-driven organizations in the world, enabling them to make decisions based on the knowledge at the core of their business. Your work directly impacts dbt Lab’s mission by expanding the organizations we serve and the data practitioners we reach. You will have an opportunity to flex into a security mindset while bringing your software architecture and programming skills. You will also have an opportunity to mentor and guide other junior engineers across engineering and advocating for platform-focused security.

This is a full-time position based in Ireland.

Technologies You’ll Use

Python (Django), Go, React, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and Datadog.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

Skills We’re Looking For

• 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 framework such as Python, Go, Rust, django, Node.js, Java, Spring.
• Strong understanding of API design, system architecture, and database management.
• Experience leading complex projects and driving cross-functional collaboration.
• A systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, and a sense of ownership.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams.

Bonus Skills

• Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks including React and TypeScript
• Experience working with data engineering tools or data processing pipelines.
• Background in performance optimization and observability tools like Datadog.
• Experience working on distributed, remote-first teams.

Perks And Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance
• Generous paid time‑off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays (including a year end Global Week of Rest), and volunteer days off
• RSU stock grants*
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self‑guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.

*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information

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.

We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this form. We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.