Engineering Manager: Metadata Platform & AI Tools

Fivetran; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 187,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

Generous paid time-off policy

RSU stock grants

Professional development and training

Company virtual happy hours

Monthly cell phone stipend

Mental health support platform

Job summary

Fivetran in Denver is seeking an engineering manager to lead the Metadata team, owning the discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history services. You’ll guide architecture, ensure reliability, and partner with product to deliver high-impact features.

You’ll coach engineers, grow the team, review designs, and drive operational excellence, with an emphasis on AI-assisted development and scalable, high-performance systems.

Qualifications

• Experience managing and growing a software engineering team, including hiring, coaching, and running a full performance and career-development cycle.
• Strong technical foundation with the ability to review designs and code and make sound architectural trade-offs in a distributed, cloud-based systems environment.
• Track record of delivering complex projects on schedule while holding the team to high standards of quality, reliability, and performance.
• Experience owning production services and driving operational health — incident response, on-call practices, tech-debt reduction, and meeting SLAs.
• Ability to plan and prioritize with product partners, maintain a realistic backlog, and drive high sprint and quarterly completion rates.
• Communicates clearly and effectively across the team and with adjacent teams and stakeholders; keeps people well informed.
• Fluent in using AI code assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI to support the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of software engineers, owning hiring, onboarding, coaching, career development plans, and regular 1:1s and check-ins.
• Own project delivery for your team against the quarterly plan, and be accountable for the reliability and performance of the services you own (e.g. uptime and latency targets).
• Review technical designs and code, and provide feedback grounded in a deep understanding of the Metadata product area and architecture.
• Drive the team to address technical quality — incidents, bugs, tech debt, and post-mortems — within SLA and metric targets.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders on planning, and maintain a realistic, prioritized feature and project backlog with a high completion rate.
• Contextualize and communicate the engineering vision and strategy to your team, and share the team's work and business impact with adjacent teams.
• Ensure engineering processes (e.g. FDLC) are implemented and consistently followed.
• Delegate effectively and build autonomy and a positive, high-trust culture within the team.

Skills

Team leadership

Code review

Project delivery

Operational health

Product planning

Communication

AI tooling

Tools

GraphQL

Multi-tenant data services

Job description

Fivetran in Denver is seeking an engineering manager to lead the Metadata team, owning the discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history services. You’ll guide architecture, ensure reliability, and partner with product to deliver high-impact features.

You’ll coach engineers, grow the team, review designs, and drive operational excellence, with an emphasis on AI-assisted development and scalable, high-performance systems.