Senior Software Engineer, Orchestration Platform

Fivetran, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

Generous paid time away

Professional development

Job summary

Fivetran, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to join the Orchestration team, owning the control plane of the dbt platform—scheduler, execution harness, and results processing.

You will design, deliver features end-to-end, and collaborate across high-throughput APIs and data models to improve speed, reliability, and scale. You will write designs, review code, and raise the bar in testing, while leveraging AI tools to accelerate development and generate SDLC artifacts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems, including designing and building backend services and reusable components from the ground up.
• Experience working with distributed systems and cloud computing concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to write well-structured, performant, and well-tested code.
• Ability to independently lead feature-level software and design work that satisfies project requirements, and to clearly explain design trade-offs.
• Can identify design flaws in existing systems and propose improvements.
• Experience with code reviews, design, troubleshooting, and testing.
• Proficiency in a modern backend or systems language such as Python, Java, C++, or C#.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with continuous integration tooling such as BuildKite, and familiarity with observability tools like Datadog or Grafana is a plus.
• Fluent in using AI code assistants and coding agents to generate and investigate code, and conversational AI (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT) to research, author, review, and synthesize SDLC artifacts

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features and performance improvements across the Orchestration team's services — the scheduler, execution harness, and results processing.
• Develop, maintain, and test high-quality, maintainable code, and optimize critical paths for performance.
• Write technical designs for feature-level work, actively seek feedback, and clearly explain the trade-offs of your decisions.
• Participate in and review technical designs and pull requests, providing constructive feedback to the team
• Improve test coverage with comprehensive unit tests and refactor code to drive down tech debt
• Troubleshoot and debug production issues, and follow up on incidents with post-mortems and mitigation plans
• Break features into tasks, structure and execute your own project plans, and contribute to sprint and feature planning
• Collaborate with product managers, QE, customer support, and peers to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability
• Participate periodically in the on-call rotation, and be mindful of security throughout your work
• Use AI tooling — IDE assistants like GitHub Copilot, coding agents like Claude Code, and conversational AI — to accelerate development and to author and review SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, post-mortems, and test plans

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Well-tested code

Code reviews

Cloud platforms

CI tooling

AI tooling

Tools

Python

Java

C++

C#

Job description

Fivetran, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to join the Orchestration team, owning the control plane of the dbt platform—scheduler, execution harness, and results processing.

You will design, deliver features end-to-end, and collaborate across high-throughput APIs and data models to improve speed, reliability, and scale. You will write designs, review code, and raise the bar in testing, while leveraging AI tools to accelerate development and generate SDLC artifacts.