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Senior R&D Software Engineer, Fivetran AI

Fivetran· Fivetran AI Department
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Hybrid (Oakland, CA)$174.9k - $209.9kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior R&D Software Engineer to join the Fivetran AI team building governed context layer for AI agents, including Agents Schema and Context Builder. Hybrid, Oakland, CA role focused on research, prototyping, production software, and cross-functional collaboration across backend, frontend, SRE, and QA.

Responsibilities

  • Research emerging techniques in retrieval, reasoning, and agentic AI, and evaluate what’s actually relevant to Fivetran AI’s roadmap
  • Prototype new ideas quickly, then take the ones that prove out and turn them into shipped, production-grade features
  • Build and maintain both back-end and front-end systems for the Fivetran AI product — from Agents Schema pipelines to the Context Catalog UI
  • Contribute to the AISQL capability: natural language to SQL grounded in dbt metric definitions, executed natively against the warehouse
  • Take ownership of production reliability: on-call rotation, incident response, and SRE work to keep the platform trustworthy at scale
  • Write and maintain tests, and do hands-on QA to catch issues before customers do
  • Use coding agents to automate repetitive parts of the job
  • Partner with product and design to shape what gets built next
  • Develop software designs and contribute to the technical roadmap for the Fivetran AI platform
  • Contribute to hiring by participating in the interview process

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of programming experience across Python and/or Java
  • Ability to move fluidly between back-end and front-end work
  • Trusted expert capable of executing complex, ambiguous tasks with minimal hand-holding
  • Comfortable reading AI/ML research and turning findings into prototypes
  • Strong product and market awareness to judge emerging techniques
  • Experience with SQL and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar)
  • Willingness to work across full stack: research, backend, frontend, SRE, QA
  • Writes well-structured, performant code and can navigate unfamiliar codebases
  • Experience using coding agents or similar AI tooling
  • Analytical mindset to identify gaps and design improvements
  • Thrives in startup-like environment with high ownership
  • Bonus: experience with LLM-powered apps, semantic layers, MCP ecosystem, SRE background, data processing or connectors, cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker), open source contributions

Skills

Required:PythonJavaSQLFrontend developmentAI tooling

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance
  • Generous paid time off (vacation, sick time, parental leave, holidays, Global Week of Rest)
  • RSU stock grants
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Virtual happy hours, free food, team-building activities
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Mental health resources and support program
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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