Senior Staff Systems Engineer — AI Platform Architect

Fivetran

Oakland (CA)

Hybrid

USD 232,000 - 290,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid medical insurance
RSU stock grants
Professional development
Monthly cell phone stipend
PTO and holidays
Mental health support platform

Job summary

Fivetran in Oakland, CA is seeking a Senior Staff Systems Engineer to lead the internal AI-powered app ecosystem. You will own a foundational code library, govern agent rules, and guide non-engineers in safe AI usage. This full-time hybrid role collaborates across engineering and business units to deliver secure, scalable platforms.

You will architect and evolve production-grade systems, mentor engineers, and partner with platform teams to maintain high reliability and security standards.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in software engineering with backend/frontend experience.
  • Experience designing reusable libraries and experimentation platforms.
  • Strong distributed systems and cloud security knowledge.
  • Ability to lead software and infrastructure design from concept to production.
  • Proficient in Java, C++, or C# and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement features for scalable distributed data pipelines.
  • Develop, maintain, and test production code.
  • Conduct design and code reviews with peers.
  • Collaborate with product, support, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality software.
  • Address performance and scalability challenges.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and hiring processes.
  • Mentor junior developers and promote security best practices.

Skills

Distributed systems
Cloud security
Performance tuning
Code reviews
Leadership
OOP languages
Java/C++/C#
Cloud platforms
CI/CD (BuildKite)
Observability tools
AI code assist / agents

Tools

Kubernetes
GCP
BigQuery
BuildKite
New Relic
Grafana
Docker

Job description

Fivetran in Oakland, CA is seeking a Senior Staff Systems Engineer to lead the internal AI-powered app ecosystem. You will own a foundational code library, govern agent rules, and guide non-engineers in safe AI usage. This full-time hybrid role collaborates across engineering and business units to deliver secure, scalable platforms.

You will architect and evolve production-grade systems, mentor engineers, and partner with platform teams to maintain high reliability and security standards.

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