Senior Software Engineer

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 + dbt Labs is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our dbt Platform Services teams. In this role you can expect to create and maintain stable, scalable services that are foundational to the dbt platform cloud product, based off solid architectural principles. We’re also driving forward the next evolution of the dbt platform by redesigning our external APIs to power improved user experiences. From rethinking our core data model and entities, to scaling our APIs accessing state that power hundreds of thousands of dbt run executions a day, you’ll be working on some of the most crosscutting and high scale work at dbt Labs today.

You’ll be joining a collaborative team of engineers; and as a Senior Engineer on the team, you will prioritize and tackle problems as they arise, working iteratively with product management, security and QA to deliver a great experience for our dbt Cloud administrators and end users.

Today we serve some of the largest data-driven organizations in the world, enabling them to make decisions based on the knowledge at the core of their business. Your work directly impacts dbt Lab’s mission by expanding the organizations we serve and the data practitioners we reach. You will have an opportunity to flex into a security mindset while bringing your software architecture and programming skills. You will also have an opportunity to mentor and guide other junior engineers across engineering and advocating for platform-focused security.

This is a full-time position based out of our Dublin 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.

Technologies You’ll Use

• Python (Django), Go, React, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and Datadog. 

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain stable, scalable foundational services that can be leveraged by other engineering teams, based off solid architectural principles and cross-team collaboration.


• Collaborate with many internal partners and product teams to influence the design of our API surface


• Design and develop reliable, secure, highly available and delightful experiences for both customer personas: the dbt Cloud admin and the end user.


• Collaborate with Product Management, UX designers, Security, and Customer Support.

Skills We’re Looking For

• Have strong fundamentals in object-oriented programming.


• Have designed and built API-driven applications using REST and/or gRPC for API endpoints.


• Have experience supporting and evolving APIs through multiple iterations.


• Are able to balance speed of delivery with designing scalable, reusable components.


• Are passionate about design and code reviews that help grow the team.


• Are highly motivated and able to work autonomously.


• Are ready to go outside of the team’s realm when there are infrastructure-related dependencies and collaborate with other teams to aid the delivery of team features.


• Ensure high programming standards by writing unit, functional, and integration tests.


• Have a systematic problem-solving approach coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

Bonus Skills

• Have worked with authentication protocols like SAML and OIDC and fine-grained authorization.


• Have an interest in application-level product security.


• Have built reliable, mission-critical software for external customers.


• Have designed and implemented scalable architecture patterns.


• Have experience with Datadog or other log monitoring services and working with it to debug production issues.


• Have experience working on a distributed team.

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