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

From Fivetran’s 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. We’re 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, we're 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, we're building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It's an exciting time to join us: we're 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

We're looking for a Senior Developer Experience Advocate to join the Developer Experience (DX) team at dbt Labs — a team of dbt experts on the forefront of serving dbt developers and building the next generation of data workflows. We partner across our internal product and go-to-market teams, as well as across the dbt Community, operating using the PRIME framework: Prototype, Represent, Ideate, Maintain, and Enable.

This is a senior, high-impact role for a data engineering generalist who wants to spend their time in public. You will execute developer experience and developer relations work across our product surface — such as dbt State, dbt Fusion, and dbt Wizard, and the Fivetran connector SDK — helping practitioners succeed with our tools and raising our thought leadership in open data infrastructure.

We are looking for someone with broad, hard-won knowledge of the data industry: how data teams actually work, where the tooling helps, and where it gets in the way. You will translate that knowledge into content, prototypes, community engagement, and product feedback. AI is reshaping parts of this landscape and you should be comfortable working with it and curious about where it goes.

This is a highly autonomous role. You will set your own priorities, communicate them clearly, and deliver high-quality work without heavy direction. In exchange you get real ownership of a focus area, significant internal and external visibility, and leadership that protects your time rather than managing your calendar. We're looking for someone who can hit the ground running — shipping meaningful work within their first two weeks.

This is a full-time, fully remote position based in the United States. This role reports to the Director of Community, Developer Experience & AI.

What You'll Do

• 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 We're Looking For

• 5+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a closely related field, with strong general knowledge of the data industry and how it is changing
• 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 — we will want to read and watch your work
• Strong data and analytics engineering fundamentals, including comfort with Python and SQL and the ability to contribute to open source codebases
• Comfort and familiarity with AI, and enthusiasm for adapting AI into how you work
• Ability to work autonomously as a self‑starter, delivering high‑quality output with minimal direction, with the operational rigor to set priorities and communicate them clearly at multiple cadences
• Strong product sense, the ability to translate user needs into concrete product feedback, and genuine enthusiasm for a public‑facing role over internal product or engineering work

Bonus Skills

• An existing footprint in the dbt Community, or prior hands‑on use of dbt tools
• Background in developer relations, developer experience, or developer advocacy at a developer tools company
• Experience building with or for AI coding agents, and fluency with how the AI agent ecosystem is evolving
• Contributions to open source projects in the data ecosystem (packages, adapters, community tools)
• Public speaking experience at data or developer conferences, and experience with Fusion and the dbt platform

The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job‑related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The compensation range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your location during the hiring process.

Zone A Pay Range - $163,886 - $204,857 USD

Zone B Pay Range - $152,968 - $191,210 USD

Zone C Pay Range - $142,050 - $177,562 USD

The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job‑related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The compensation range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your location during the hiring process.

$142,050 — $177,562.50 USD

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
• 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

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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 Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.

We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this form . We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.