Data Platform Engineering Manager

Fivetran; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

Job summary

Fivetran in Oakland is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Data Application Platform team. You’ll lead the engineers responsible for core systems that support data movement, including scheduling and workflow management, application security, and database systems.

You’ll guide team execution and career development while shaping technical direction; this is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll focus on growing people, building a healthy delivery process, and collaborating with product and

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams and shipping production systems.
• Strong engineering judgment for architecture tradeoffs with senior engineers.
• Knowledge of core platform domains: SQL, security, and scalability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in distributed/asynchronous teams.
• Experience driving cross-team technical initiatives and influencing direction.
• Proven ability to take high-impact problems from definition to execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team: hire, onboard, coach, and develop engineers; provide day-to-day support and manage performance.
• Own team delivery: plan and prioritize work; guide execution to ship high-quality software.
• Set technical direction: collaborate on architecture and evolution of scheduling, workflows, security, and databases.
• Drive cross-team alignment with platform and engineering leaders to integrate core systems.
• Shape the roadmap by translating customer needs, security requirements, and feedback into priorities.
• Raise the engineering bar with design docs, code reviews, and durable practices.

Skills

Lead engineering teams

Engineering judgment

Platform domains

Communication

Cross-team leadership

Deliverability

Tools

Java

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Bazel

BuildKite

Job description

Fivetran in Oakland is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Data Application Platform team. You’ll lead the engineers responsible for core systems that support data movement, including scheduling and workflow management, application security, and database systems.

You’ll guide team execution and career development while shaping technical direction; this is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll focus on growing people, building a healthy delivery process, and collaborating with product and