Staff Software Engineer - Developer Productivity

Fivetran; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

Generous PTO and holidays

RSU stock grants

Professional development

Monthly cell phone stipend

Mental health support platform

Job summary

Fivetran is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join Platform Ops and lead initiatives that boost developer productivity through tooling, environments, and observability. You will drive AI-based workflows, automation, and self-service capabilities across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Youll partner with Platform Engineering, Release, Security, and product teams to deliver measurable improvements in lead time, incidents, and recovery, while mentoring engineers and defining technical direction for broad

Qualifications

• Production services built in Python and/or Go.
• Experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience building developer productivity tooling.
• Track record leading cross-team technical projects to completion.
• Strong communication and engineering judgment.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end projects to improve developer tooling, environments, and operational workflows.
• Design and operate internal tooling/services in Python and/or Go.
• Build tooling for our internal developer platform (self-service workflows, interfaces).
• Add automation across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Develop AI-based workflows that improve developer experience and reduce repetitive work.
• Improve observability and feedback loops to diagnose failures faster.
• Define paved paths and self-service capabilities for teams to ship quickly.
• Improve reliability through automation and observability and drive incident follow-ups.
• Set technical direction and drive delivery across stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers through design and code reviews.

Skills

Python/Go production services

Cloud provider experience

Developer productivity tooling

Cross-team project leadership

Strong communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform/OpenTofu

Developer portals

Job description

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, APAC

Position Title: Staff Software Engineer - Developer Productivity

About Us

From Fivetran 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. Were proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

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, were 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, were building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. Its an exciting time to join us: were 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

Were looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Platform Ops team (Platform Engineering) and lead initiatives that enable developer productivity by building and improving developer tooling and environments, and by improving other productivity tools around observability. Our team builds the shared systems and workflows engineers rely on every dayinternal developer environments and self-serve tooling that makes the recommended way to ship changes the easiest way.

This is a platform tooling role with a focus is on reusable capabilities and self-service workflows adopted across teams. Youll also help develop AI-based workflows for productivity and efficiency, including automation that improves infrastructure operations (for example, faster triage, automated runbook steps, and better self-service for common issues). Youll prioritize the highest-impact problems by looking at where time is being lost today (slow builds, flaky tests, manual release steps, repetitive operational work) and turning that into concrete projects.Youll set clear success metrics up front and use them to guide design decisions and rollouts.Expect to partner closely with engineering teams to drive adoption, document changes, and iterate based on feedback.Youll drive cross-team work across internal tooling, developer environments, observability, and reliability, focusing on measurable improvements (for example: shorter lead time, fewer incidents, and faster recovery). Youll add automation and enable developer workflows across all three major cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and GCP).

As a staff engineer on the team, youll lead medium-to-large initiatives end-to-end: define the problem with stakeholders, write a design and rollout plan, build and operate the solution in Python/Go, and measure results. Youll work across Platform Engineering, Release Engineering, Security, and product engineering teams to make improvements that are adopted broadly and remain reliable over time.

What Youll Do

• Lead end-to-end projects that improve developer tooling, environments, and operational workflows (speed, reliability, and safety)
• Design and operate internal tooling/services in Python and/or Go
• Build tooling for our internal developer platform (self-service workflows, shared patterns, developer-facing interfaces)
• Add automation and enable developer workflows across all three major cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and GCP)
• Develop AI-based workflows that improve developer experience and reduce repetitive manual work, including efficiency gains in infrastructure operations
• Improve developer feedback loops through better observability (metrics/logs/traces), making failures easier to diagnose
• Design/build and document paved paths and self-service capabilities so teams can ship without extensive platform expertise
• Improve reliability through automation and observability (metrics/logs/traces), and drive incident follow-ups to reduce recurrence
• Set technical direction (design docs, tradeoffs, sequencing) and drive delivery across stakeholders
• Mentor engineers through design and code reviews

Skills Were Looking For

• Strong experience building and operating production services in Python and/or Go
• Experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and core primitives (IAM, networking, compute)
• Experience building developer productivity tooling (CI systems, build tooling, developer portals, workflow automation)
• Track record leading ambiguous, cross-team technical projects to completion
• Strong communication and engineering judgment

You'll have an edge if you have

• Kubernetes/platform abstractions experience
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu), including reusable modules, safe state practices, and modernization of shared platform foundations
• Experience building internal developer platforms (IDPs) / developer portals / self-service tooling

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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-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.

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We're honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, were proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/protected veterans

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