Senior Engineering Manager, dbt Fusion

Описание

Fivetran seeks a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Core team building the Rust-based dbt Fusion engine.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a fluid team of approximately 8 engineers working on a critical part of the dbt product
• Establish clarity across a technically demanding roadmap with multiple product and engineering stakeholders
• Partner closely with Product to translate ambiguous requirements into realistic engineering scope, sequencing, and estimates
• Help the team balance new feature development, engine maintenance, framework modernization, documentation, and the stability of a GA product
• Guide end-to-end technical design across the engine and its integration points with orchestration, the IDE, adapters, warehouses, and late compute
• Support engineers in making sound tradeoffs across product value, technical quality, performance, compatibility, and delivery risk
• Actively contribute to technical design and implementation alongside the team
• Work with peer engineering leaders to coordinate initiatives that span multiple teams and systems
• Build an environment where engineers can do high-quality work, grow their scope, and take ownership of meaningful technical problems
• Help shape the next phase of dbt Fusion as a language-aware transformation engine used by the broader data community

Requirements

• Experience leading teams through multiple concurrent priorities and diverse integration points
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals and prior experience as a senior/staff engineer, technical lead, or equivalent hands-on technical leader
• Ability to lead or facilitate system design from problem definition through implementation and delivery
• Ability to translate complex or ambiguous product requirements into credible engineering estimates, milestones, and tradeoffs
• Demonstrated judgment in balancing roadmap delivery with reliability, maintainability, technical debt, and product quality
• A hands-on technical orientation, including a willingness and ability to stay close to code and engineering details
• Led a software team through the full development lifecycle: discovery, design, implementation, testing, release, operation, and iteration
• Worked on products with substantial technical complexity, integration surfaces, or platform dependencies
• Successfully partnered with Product and other engineering teams to create a stable roadmap and make difficult prioritization decisions
• Experience in data transformation, orchestration, query engines, databases, developer tools, compilers, language tooling, or a closely related area
• The ability to explain complex technical systems clearly to engineers, product partners, and candidates with different levels of technical depth
• A track record of developing strong engineers while maintaining a high technical bar
• Comfort operating in a fluid environment where team boundaries, priorities, and scope may evolve

Nice to have

• Experience with Rust or another systems programming language, compilers, query planning, language servers, IDE tooling, or developer platforms
• Experience building or operating data transformation, orchestration, warehouse, or execution systems
• Contributions to open-source projects or experience working with open standards and open technical communities
• Familiarity with ecosystems such as Apache Arrow, Apache Iceberg, DuckDB, ADBC, or related data and execution technologies
• Experience with SQL semantics, query optimization, transpilation across dialects, data lineage, governance, or developer-facing language features
• Experience working in a remote-first or distributed organization with strong written communication practices
• Startup or scale-up experience and comfort wearing multiple hats while the organization evolves
• Direct dbt experience is helpful but not required

We offer

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance
• Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid 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
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