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Staff R&D Software Engineer, Fivetran AI

Fivetran· Fivetran AI Department
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Hybrid (Oakland, CA)$196k - $245kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Staff R&D Software Engineer to join Fivetran AI, building the governed context layer for AI agents, researching AI techniques, prototyping and shipping production software, and defining technical direction across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

  • Research emerging techniques in retrieval, reasoning, and agentic AI, and decide what’s actually worth pursuing for Fivetran AI’s roadmap — then convince others
  • Prototype new ideas quickly, then take the ones that prove out and turn them into shipped, production-grade features
  • Define technical direction that spans multiple teams within Fivetran AI, ensuring architecture decisions made in one area don’t create problems in another
  • Build and maintain both back-end and front-end systems for the Fivetran AI product — from Agents Schema pipelines to the Context Catalog UI
  • Drive the AISQL capability forward: natural language to SQL grounded in dbt metric definitions, executed natively against the warehouse
  • Take ownership of production reliability across the platform: on-call rotation, incident response, and SRE work to keep the system trustworthy at scale
  • Set the bar for testing and QA practices, and do hands-on QA work yourself when it matters most
  • Use coding agents to automate the repetitive parts of the job, freeing up time for the research and design work that needs a human
  • Take high-level direction from product and leadership and independently define and execute the concrete plan to get there
  • Mentor other engineers and raise the technical bar across the Fivetran AI team
  • Contribute to hiring by participating in and helping shape the interview process

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of programming experience across Python and/or Java, with the ability to move fluidly between back-end and front-end work
  • Trusted expert beyond own team, able to exert influence and define technical direction across multiple teams
  • Comfortable reading AI/ML research and turning promising findings into working prototypes, then production systems
  • Strong product and market awareness — able to judge which emerging techniques are worth building versus hype
  • Track record of taking ambiguous, high-level direction and independently defining and executing the concrete work to deliver it
  • Experience with SQL and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar)
  • Willingness to work across the full stack: research, backend, frontend, SRE, and QA
  • Writes well-structured, performant code and can dive into unfamiliar codebases to suggest improvements
  • Experience using coding agents or similar AI tooling to speed up day-to-day engineering work
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor other engineers and influence technical decisions beyond immediate team
  • Thrives in a startup-like environment with shifting priorities and high ownership

Skills

Required:Programming (Python, Java)SQL and data warehousesFull-stack development

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance
  • Generous paid time off (vacation, sick time, parental leave, holidays, Global Week of Rest, volunteer days)
  • RSU stock grants
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, team-building activities
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Access to mental health support platform with resources for employees and dependents
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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