Engineering Manager, Metadata Platform — Lead Data Discovery

Fivetran; Austin (CO); On-site; USD 207,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

Generous paid time away from work

RSU stock grants

Professional development and training

Company virtual happy hours

Monthly cell phone stipend

Mental health support platform

Job summary

Fivetran is seeking an engineering manager to lead the Metadata team, owning the discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history services that help customers understand and trust their data.

You will set direction, review designs and code, and grow engineers through coaching and clear career development while shipping new discovery and catalog capabilities in collaboration with product teams.

Qualifications

• Experience managing and growing a software engineering team.
• Strong technical foundation to review designs and code.
• Deliver complex projects on schedule with high standards of quality.
• Own production services and drive operational health (incidents, SLA, latency).
• Plan and prioritize with product partners and maintain a realistic backlog.
• Communicate clearly across teams and stakeholders.
• Proficiency with AI tools to support the SDLC and related artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of software engineers, owning hiring, onboarding, coaching, and 1:1s.
• Own project delivery for your team against the quarterly plan and ensure reliability and performance.
• Review technical designs and code, providing feedback grounded in product architecture.
• Drive quality initiatives: incidents, debt, post-mortems, within SLA targets.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to plan and maintain a prioritized backlog.
• Contextualize and communicate engineering vision and strategy to the team.

Skills

Team management

Systems design

Delivery leadership

Production services

Product partnership

Communication

AI in SDLC

Job description

Fivetran is seeking an engineering manager to lead the Metadata team, owning the discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history services that help customers understand and trust their data.

You will set direction, review designs and code, and grow engineers through coaching and clear career development while shipping new discovery and catalog capabilities in collaboration with product teams.