Remote Senior Developer Experience Advocate

Fivetran, Inc.; Denver, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Paid time off

Professional development

Company events

Cell phone stipend

Mental health resources

Job summary

Fivetran in the United States is seeking a Senior Developer Experience Advocate to lead developer experience across our product surface, including dbt-related tools and the Fivetran connector SDK. You will craft content, prototypes, and community engagement to drive practitioner success and public thought leadership.

You will work autonomously, set priorities, and ship meaningful work with high visibility within two weeks, reporting to the Director of Community, Developer Experience & AI.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a closely related field.
• Hands‑on dbt knowledge and practitioner‑level fluency.
• Expert public communication in both spoken and written technical contexts, with a track record of published articles or public‑facing content on data or analytics engineering.
• Strong data and analytics engineering fundamentals, including comfort with Python and SQL and the ability to contribute to open source codebases.

Responsibilities

• Design and build prototypes, reference implementations, and example repositories that show practitioners how to get real work done with our tools.
• Create working prototypes that validate product direction and accelerate engineering iteration.
• Build tooling that removes friction from common analytics engineering workflows.
• Author technical content for the dbt Developer Blog, guides, and documentation that makes complex concepts actionable for practitioners.
• Publish knowledge and best practices on data and analytics engineering that establish you as a resource in your product area.
• Develop enablement resources for internal teams and the dbt Community, and contribute to product launches as a subject matter expert.
• Represent your product area as a community voice across Community Slack, GitHub, conferences, and public forums.
• Collect and synthesize community feedback, surfacing insights to product and engineering, and bring the practitioner perspective into product design reviews.
• Identify and flag sharp edges, regressions, or gaps in the developer experience.
• Maintain and triage relevant open source repositories and community projects, contributing code and design reviews with an eye toward developer ergonomics.

Skills

Hands-on dbt knowledge

Public communication

Python and SQL

Autonomy / self-starter

Public-facing content

Product sense

dbt Community footprint

Developer relations

AI coding agents

Open source contributions

Public speaking at conferences

Job description

Fivetran in the United States is seeking a Senior Developer Experience Advocate to lead developer experience across our product surface, including dbt-related tools and the Fivetran connector SDK. You will craft content, prototypes, and community engagement to drive practitioner success and public thought leadership.

You will work autonomously, set priorities, and ship meaningful work with high visibility within two weeks, reporting to the Director of Community, Developer Experience & AI.