Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Fivetran; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 232,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid medical insurance

Generous PTO and parental leave

RSU stock grants

Professional development opportunities

Company events/activities

Job summary

Fivetran in Oakland, CA is seeking a high-performance Site Reliability Engineer to join a team responsible for the reliability of the data platform. You will partner with software engineers, product managers, and support to ensure scalable, robust infrastructure and rapid incident response in a hybrid work setting.

This full-time role offers two in-office days per week, with remote flexibility, and opportunities to impact deployment pipelines, monitoring, and security practices across the

Qualifications

• Experience building reliable production infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and automation tooling.
• Proficiency with Linux and Python.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes-based deployments and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability and performance of production infrastructure.
• Influence the product roadmap by embedding reliability into systems.
• Coordinate bug fixes for critical incidents and customer-impacting issues.
• Ensure scalable deployments across environments through automation.
• Collaborate with security to address vulnerabilities and harden systems.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Ansible

Buildkite

Pulumi

ArgoCD

Python

Linux

Cloud networking

PostgreSQL

Java

Go

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

Fivetran and dbt Labs is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

Fivetran is looking for a high-performance, experienced engineer to be a part of a team of Site Reliability Engineers. You will be working closely with engineering teams, product managers, as well as support and sales engineers to build the future of the Fivetran Data Platform Reliability.

As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, you will take ownership of the overall performance and reliability of Fivetran's infrastructure, the robustness of the deployment pipeline, as well as timely and effective incident response and resolution. You will take responsibility for the growth and stability of Fivetran's infrastructure, and be a key player driving effective incident response and overall issue avoidance.

This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland, CA office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.

What You'll Do

• Responsible for ongoing reliability and robustness of Fivetran's production infrastructure by monitoring availability, capacity, and throughput.
• Evolve systems by adding reliability into our product roadmap
• Coordinate the re-prioritize or fix critical bugs for support or sales requirements as needed
• Make recommendations to production infrastructure by interfacing with engineering to ensure 100% availability
• Ensure scalable artifacts deployment to all environments by automation scripts
• Constantly monitor infrastructure vulnerabilities and remedy them by working with the security team

Skills We're Looking For

• Expertise in managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS and GKE)
• Expertise of Cloud Platforms and related tooling: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Buildkite, Pulumi and ArgoCD
• Expertise in Python Programming.
• Expertise with Linux operating systems internals and administration
• Expertise with cloud networking like VPNs, Privatelinks, and Private Service connect (GCP)
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL

Bonus Skills

• Bonus if you have Java, GO Programing

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.

Oakland Pay Range
$232,338 - $290,422 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
• RSU stock grants
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-bui

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