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Engineering Manager, Metadata

Fivetran· Engineering Department
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Hybrid (Oakland, CA)$186.7k - $233.4kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Engineering manager role leading the Metadata team responsible for the dbt platform's metadata layer, including discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history services. Focus on technical excellence, delivery, reliability, and collaboration with product, with coaching and career development for engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team of software engineers, owning hiring, onboarding, coaching, career development plans, and regular 1:1s and check-ins
  • Own project delivery for your team against the quarterly plan, and be accountable for the reliability and performance of the services you own (e.g. uptime and latency targets)
  • Review technical designs and code, and provide feedback grounded in a deep understanding of the Metadata product area and architecture
  • Drive the team to address technical quality — incidents, bugs, tech debt, and post-mortems — within SLA and metric targets
  • Partner with product and business stakeholders on planning, and maintain a realistic, prioritized feature and project backlog with a high completion rate
  • Contextualize and communicate the engineering vision and strategy to your team, and share the team's work and business impact with adjacent teams
  • Ensure engineering processes (e.g. FDLC) are implemented and consistently followed
  • Delegate effectively and build autonomy and a positive, high-trust culture within the team
  • Address performance issues and conflict promptly and fairly
  • Ensure your team uses AI tooling to accelerate development and to author and review SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, post-mortems, and test plans

Qualifications

  • Experience managing and growing a software engineering team (ideally a customer-facing product development team); including hiring, coaching, and running a full performance and career-development cycle
  • Strong technical foundation with the ability to review designs and code and make sound architectural trade-offs in a distributed, cloud-based systems environment
  • Track record of delivering complex projects on schedule while holding the team to high standards of quality, reliability, and performance
  • Experience owning production services and driving operational health — incident response, on-call practices, tech-debt reduction, and meeting SLAs
  • Ability to plan and prioritize with product partners, maintain a realistic backlog, and drive high sprint and quarterly completion rates
  • Communicates clearly and effectively across the team and with adjacent teams and stakeholders; keeps people well informed
  • Fluent in using AI code assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI to support the software development lifecycle, and able to establish those practices across a team

Skills

Required:Team leadership and people managementSystem design and architecture reviewProduction services ownership and SRE practicesBacklog planning and collaboration with product
Nice to have:AI tooling fluency

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance
  • Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, year-end Global Week of Rest, 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 mental health resources and support platform for employees and dependents
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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