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Senior Software Engineer - Metadata

Fivetran· Engineering Department
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Hybrid (Denver, CO)$163.9k - $196.7kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior software engineer joining the Metadata team to own the metadata layer of the dbt platform, including discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history services. Build end-to-end features, optimize performance, and collaborate with product and QE to scale solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement features and performance improvements across the Metadata team's services — discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history
  • Develop, maintain, and test high-quality, maintainable code, and optimize critical paths for performance
  • Write technical designs for feature-level work, actively seek feedback, and clearly explain the trade-offs of your decisions
  • Participate in and review technical designs and pull requests, providing constructive feedback to the team
  • Improve test coverage with comprehensive unit tests and refactor code to drive down tech debt
  • Troubleshoot and debug production issues, and follow up on incidents with post-mortems and mitigation plans
  • Break features into tasks, structure and execute your own project plans, and contribute to sprint and feature planning
  • Collaborate with product managers, QE, customer support, and peers to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability
  • Participate periodically in the on-call rotation, and be mindful of security throughout your work
  • Use AI tooling — IDE assistants like GitHub Copilot, coding agents like Claude Code, and conversational AI — to accelerate development and to author and review SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, post-mortems, and test plans

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems, including designing and building backend services and reusable components from the ground up
  • Experience working with distributed systems and cloud computing concepts
  • Demonstrated ability to write well-structured, performant, and well-tested code
  • Ability to independently lead feature-level software and design work that satisfies project requirements, and to clearly explain design trade-offs
  • Can identify design flaws in existing systems and propose improvements
  • Experience with code reviews, design, troubleshooting, and testing
  • Proficiency in a modern backend or systems language such as Python, Java, C++, or C#
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with continuous integration tooling such as BuildKite, and familiarity with observability tools like Datadog or Grafana is a plus
  • Fluent in using AI code assistants and coding agents to generate and investigate code, and conversational AI (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT) to research, author, review, and synthesize SDLC artifacts

Skills

Required:Backend design and implementationDistributed systemsCode reviews and testing

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, including a 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 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
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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