Engineering Manager, Automations & Internal Tooling

Fivetran; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

Generous PTO incl holidays

RSU stock grants

Professional development

Team events and social activities

Cell phone stipend

Mental health support platform

Job summary

Fivetran is seeking an Engineering Manager for Automations & Internal Tooling to lead a growing team building internal automations and developer tooling. You will shape strategy, prioritize opportunities, and drive scalable, reliable solutions across Engineering and other teams.

You will mentor engineers, participate in architecture decisions, and contribute hands-on when needed to raise the bar on engineering quality and team health. Novi Sad, Serbia-based role.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and developing software engineers.
• Strong software engineering background with architectural knowledge.
• Able to deliver software projects end to end from problem to rollout.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the engineers building internal automation and tooling.
• Shape strategy and roadmap for engineering automation and internal tools.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions and code reviews.
• Own team execution with focus on reliability and long-term quality.
• Contribute hands-on when valuable to design, prototyping, or coding.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Mentoring

Software engineering depth

End-to-end delivery

Prioritization

Product mindset for internal tooling

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership

Architectural guidance

Job description

Novi Sad, South Baka, Serbia, EMEA

Position Title: Engineering Manager, Automations & Internal Tooling

From Fivetrans 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. Were proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About Us

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, were 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, were building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. Its an exciting time to join us: were 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 is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Automations team, a growing engineering team focused on building internal automations, tools, and systems that make Fivetran engineers more productive and effective.

The team operates at the intersection of software engineering, developer productivity, and automation. It identifies repetitive or inefficient workflows, builds solutions to improve them, and develops internal tools used across Engineering and other parts of Fivetran. The work can range from small, high-leverage automations to larger internal platforms and services.

As the Engineering Manager, you'll lead and develop the team while helping define Fivetran's strategy for internal automation and engineering tooling. You'll work closely with engineers and stakeholders across the company to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, and turn ideas into reliable, scalable solutions.

This is a technical leadership role. You'll be expected to understand the architecture and implementation of the systems your team owns, participate in technical and architectural decisions, and help maintain a high engineering bar. If you enjoy staying hands-on, you'll also have the flexibility to contribute directly to design, code, prototypes, and tooling where it creates the most value.

You'll join a fast-moving and growing team with significant opportunity to shape how it operates, what it builds, and how automation is used across Fivetran.

This is a full-time position based out of our Novi Sad office in Serbia.

Technologies You’ll Use

• TypeScript, Python, Java
• Postgres, BigQuery, Datastore
• Git, Github, Buildkite
• GCP, AWS
• AI development tools

What You’ll Do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers building internal automation and developer tooling.
• Shape and drive the strategy and roadmap for engineering automation and internal tools, focusing on high-impact opportunities that improve developer productivity and effectiveness.
• Partner with engineers, engineering leaders, and other stakeholders to understand pain points, prioritize opportunities, and turn them into pragmatic solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and guidance on engineering quality and system health.
• Own the team's execution and delivery, balancing speed with reliability, maintainability, and long-term technical quality.
• Build a strong, autonomous team by creating clarity, delegating effectively, and growing technical leadership within the team.
• Contribute hands-on to design, prototyping, coding, or debugging when it is useful and where you want to stay involved.

Skills Were Looking For

• Experience leading and developing software engineers, with demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, provide feedback, and help engineers grow their impact and careers.
• Strong software engineering background and enough technical depth to guide designs and code, understand implementation trade-offs, troubleshoot complex systems, and guide technical decisions.
• Experience delivering software projects end to end, from identifying and refining a problem through planning, implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation.
• Ability to translate broad or ambiguous problems into clear priorities and plans, making pragmatic decisions when requirements or outcomes are not fully defined.
• Strong product and customer mindset for internal tooling, with the ability to understand engineers workflows, identify high-leverage opportunities, and build solutions that teams genuinely want to use.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working across engineering teams and with stakeholders who may have different priorities and needs.
• Ability to build trust and ownership within a team, delegate effectively, resolve conflicts, and create an environment of transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Interest in automation, developer productivity, and engineering effectiveness, with curiosity about how new technologies can improve software development and operational workflows.

Bonus Skills

• Experience building developer productivity platforms, internal developer tools, engineering infrastructure, or workflow automation.
• Experience measuring developer productivity, engineering effectiveness, or the business impact of internal tooling.
• Experience building solutions using LLMs, AI agents, or agentic workflows.

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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

Were honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, were 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.

To learn more about Fivetrans culture and what its like to be part of the team, enjoy our video.

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