Engineering Manager, Data Platform & Scheduling (Hybrid)

Fivetran; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

RSU stock grants

Generous paid time away

Professional development and training

Team events and wellbeing support

Job summary

Fivetran in Oakland, CA, is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Data Application Platform team. This hands-on leadership role focuses on growing people, shaping technical direction, and ensuring reliable delivery of core systems for data movement and workflow management.

You will stay close to code and architecture while guiding a senior engineering team in a hybrid, in-office setup with two days per week in the Oakland office.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams and shipping production systems.
• Strong engineering judgment with architecture tradeoffs.
• Familiarity with core platform domains like SQL, security, and scalability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in distributed teams.
• Proven ability to drive cross-team technical initiatives.
• Track record delivering 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 deliver high-quality software.
• Set technical direction: work with senior staff to guide architecture and evolution of scheduling, workflow, security, and databases.
• Drive cross-team alignment: coordinate shared technical work across platform and engineering.
• Shape the roadmap: translate customer needs and security requirements into priorities.
• Raise the engineering bar: foster design docs, code review, and durable engineering.

Skills

Lead teams

Engineering judgment

Platform domains

Communication

Cross-team leadership

Delivery under ambiguity

Tools

Java

Postgres

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Bazel

BuildKite

Observability

Job description

Fivetran in Oakland, CA, is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Data Application Platform team. This hands-on leadership role focuses on growing people, shaping technical direction, and ensuring reliable delivery of core systems for data movement and workflow management.

You will stay close to code and architecture while guiding a senior engineering team in a hybrid, in-office setup with two days per week in the Oakland office.