Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Fivetran, Inc.; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 232,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid health insurance

Generous PTO & holidays

Professional development

Team events & free food

Monthly cell phone stipend

Mental health resources

Job summary

Fivetran in Oakland, CA is seeking a high-performance Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability and performance of our production infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

You will work with engineering, product, and security teams to lead incident response, capacity planning, and automation across AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, and Kubernetes in a hybrid office model two days per week. This is a full-time role with strong growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role.
• Proficient in Python and Linux system internals.
• Experience with cloud platforms and IaC tools.
• Strong incident response and disaster recovery experience.
• Experience with PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Maintain reliability and performance of production infrastructure.
• Evolve systems by adding reliability into the product roadmap.
• Coordinate re-prioritization or fix of critical bugs for support or sales.
• Interface with engineering to ensure 100% availability.
• Automate deployments across environments.
• Monitor vulnerabilities with security team.
• Work with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Manage PostgreSQL and related databases.

Skills

Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Ansible

Buildkite

Pulumi

ArgoCD

Python

Linux

VPNs/Private Service Connect

PostgreSQL

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Buildkite

Pulumi

ArgoCD

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
• 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

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
• 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

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.

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.