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Senior Director, Lead Software Engineering

Fivetran redefined the data pipeline. Shaped by the needs of analysts, our fully managed pipelines enable data-backed decisions company-wide by delivering ready-to-query data into your cloud warehouse.

Fivetran

Employee count: 201-500

Salary: 252k-315k USD

United States only

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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 the Role

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

We’re looking for a Head of Engineering for a dashboard and data modeling interface. Must be an experience Sr leader, and also an operator proficient with modern tooling stacks and AI assistants. Will be responsible for organizing and implementing much of the work around a new highly integrated product offering and an open source repo.

You’ll also be responsible for ensuring the technical excellence of your team and owned services, by reviewing code, contributing to architectural designs, and mentoring your junior colleagues.

This is a full-time remote role.

Technologies You’ll Use

Python, Django, Javascript, Claude Code, MCPs, data warehouses, SQL, visualization libraries.

What You’ll Do

  • Manage small but world class all-star engineering team
  • Own and implement many core product features
  • Drive and execute deep integrations into existing products and platform
  • Balance features, scope and speed

Skills We’re Looking For

  • Team leadership
  • Architectural skill - able to see the simple and efficient paths
  • AI coding tool proficiency and effectiveness
  • Scope simplification

For example, our required AI competencies for Engineering:

  • Understand how to use AI code assist and coding agents to automatically generate code for features, bugs, testing, and investigation
  • Ability to use conversational AI systems (like Claude, ChatGPT, and internal chatbots) to support researching, authoring, reviewing, and synthesizing various SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, Postmortems, Test Plans, and Proposals

The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The compensation range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your location during the hiring process.

Pay Range
$251,835—$314,794 USD

Perks and Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
  • Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, 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.

*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information

Click here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.


We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re 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.

To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.

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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.

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Salary: 252k-315k USD

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About Fivetran

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Fivetran redefined the data pipeline. Shaped by the needs of analysts, our fully managed pipelines enable data-backed decisions company-wide by delivering ready-to-query data into your cloud warehouse. We’re focused, transparent and trusted by businesses that embrace agile analytics. Fivetran connectors deploy in minutes, require zero maintenance, and automatically adjust to source changes.

Fivetran is the epitome of data-driven-development — our engineering team is laser-focused on building world-class products. We emphasize using no-nonsense tools and take great pride in the simplicity and effectiveness of the systems we build. Our back-end is built on Java, Postgres, and Kubernetes, and our front-end is built on React and Typescript. We're cloud-native and built for the modern way of work.

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Volunteer opportunities

Paid volunteer days off.

Learning and development

Professional development and training opportunities.

Commuter benefits

Commuter benefits to help with transit and parking costs

Generous vacation

Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time, and holidays

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201-500 employees

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