Senior Metadata Platform Engineer

Socket.dev; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

RSU stock grants

Generous PTO and holidays

Job summary

Fivetran is seeking a senior software engineer to join the Metadata team, owning the discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history services. You’ll design and deliver end-to-end features across high-throughput APIs and data models, improving speed, reliability, and scalability with collaboration across product and QE teams.

You’ll write designs, review code, use AI tools to accelerate development, and contribute to test coverage and security-focused SDLC artifacts, all while aligning with a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, designing and building backend services.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud computing concepts.
• Ability to write well-structured, well-tested code.
• Ability to lead feature-level software and design work and explain trade-offs.
• Familiarity with code reviews, design, troubleshooting, and testing.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, C++, or C# for backend/systems.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and containerization.
• Experience with CI tools and observability tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features and performance improvements across the Metadata team's services—discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history.
• Develop, maintain, and test high-quality, maintainable code, and optimize critical paths for performance.
• Write technical designs, seek feedback, and explain trade-offs of decisions.
• Review designs and PRs, providing constructive feedback to the team.
• Improve test coverage with unit tests and refactor code to reduce tech debt.
• Troubleshoot and debug production issues with post-mortems and mitigation plans.
• Break features into tasks, plan projects, and contribute to sprint planning.
• Collaborate with product managers, QE, and support to deliver a high-quality product.
• Participate in on-call rotation and prioritize security in work.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate development and SDLC artifacts.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Python

Cloud platforms

Code reviews

Team collaboration

CI/CD

AI tooling

Tools

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

Kafka

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Job description

Fivetran is seeking a senior software engineer to join the Metadata team, owning the discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history services. You’ll design and deliver end-to-end features across high-throughput APIs and data models, improving speed, reliability, and scalability with collaboration across product and QE teams.

You’ll write designs, review code, use AI tools to accelerate development, and contribute to test coverage and security-focused SDLC artifacts, all while aligning with a