Senior Developer Experience Leader (Remote)

Fivetran; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Fivetran is seeking a Senior Developer Experience Advocate to join the dbt Labs DX team, working across dbt State, dbt Fusion, dbt Wizard, and the Fivetran connector SDK to empower practitioners and raise thought leadership in open data infrastructure.

You will translate deep data industry knowledge into content, prototypes, and community feedback, with a strong emphasis on public-facing work and AI-enabled workflows. This is a high-autonomy role with clear priorities and meaningful ownership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering.
• Hands-on dbt knowledge and practitioner-level fluency.
• Excellent public communication and writing about data/analytics.
• Strong fundamentals in Python and SQL; ability to contribute to open source.
• Comfort with AI and interest in applying it to work.
• Self-starter with ability to prioritize and communicate clearly.

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.
• Publish knowledge and best practices on data and analytics engineering.
• 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 and surface insights to product and engineering.
• Identify and flag sharp edges, regressions, or gaps in the developer experience.
• Maintain and triage relevant open source repositories and community projects.

Skills

Data engineering

dbt knowledge

Public speaking

Python

SQL

Autonomy

Tools

GitHub

dbt tools

Job description

Fivetran is seeking a Senior Developer Experience Advocate to join the dbt Labs DX team, working across dbt State, dbt Fusion, dbt Wizard, and the Fivetran connector SDK to empower practitioners and raise thought leadership in open data infrastructure.

You will translate deep data industry knowledge into content, prototypes, and community feedback, with a strong emphasis on public-facing work and AI-enabled workflows. This is a high-autonomy role with clear priorities and meaningful ownership.