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Staff R&D Software Engineer, Fivetran AI

Fivetran· Fivetran AI Department
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)$183.7k - $229.6kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Staff R&D Software Engineer to join the Fivetran AI team, building the governed context layer for AI agents (Agents Schema and Context Builder). Combines research, prototyping, and production delivery across backend and frontend, with ownership of architecture, reliability, QA, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

  • Research emerging techniques in retrieval, reasoning, and agentic AI, and decide what’s worth pursuing for Fivetran AI’s roadmap — then convince others
  • Prototype new ideas quickly, then turn them into shipped, production-grade features
  • Define technical direction that spans multiple teams within Fivetran AI
  • 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
  • Set the bar for testing and QA practices, and do hands-on QA work yourself when it matters most
  • Use coding agents to automate repetitive parts of the job
  • Take high-level direction from product and leadership and independently define and execute concrete plans
  • 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
  • Trusted expert capable of influencing across multiple teams
  • Ability to read AI/ML research and turn findings into prototypes and production systems
  • Strong product and market awareness to judge which techniques are worth building
  • Experience turning high-level direction into concrete work and delivering
  • Experience with SQL and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar)
  • Willingness to work across the 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
  • Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical decisions beyond immediate team
  • Thrives in startup-like environment with ownership

Skills

Required:PythonJavaSQLFrontend developmentMentoring
Nice to have:SRE / ReliabilityAI tooling / coding agents

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
  • Company virtual events, free food, and team-building activities
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Mental health support platform access
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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