Senior Staff Systems Engineer, Data & Integrations
Hybrid (Oakland, CA)$202.8k - $253.5kfull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Senior Staff Systems Engineer to own data architecture behind marketing, sales, billing, and product operations; lead large data initiatives, define data standards, and mentor engineers. Hybrid role based in Oakland, CA.
Responsibilities
- Own the canonical data models for Fivetran's marketing, sales, billing, and product operations integrations, and define how business concepts map to data across our core systems.
- Define team-wide standards for data modeling, data quality, testing, governance, and documentation, and drive their adoption across Systems Engineering and partner teams.
- Contribute to the design of integration architecture, establishing guidance for when to use batch, real-time, and event-driven data movement.
- Lead the design and execution of our most complex data initiatives, including bulk migrations, system consolidations, and re-implementation of core integrations, from target-state design through validation, cutover, and stabilization.
- Build, review, and ship the SQL and Python transformations and pipelines behind these initiatives, setting the bar for code quality on the team.
- Design the validation and reconciliation approach for migrations and pipeline changes, and sign off with stakeholders that record counts, values, and business rules reconcile.
- Design the monitoring, alerting, and data quality framework that gives end-to-end visibility into data freshness and accuracy across systems, and define the KPIs used to measure integration and data health.
- Lead root cause analysis on the most complex cross-system data issues, and drive the systemic fixes that prevent recurrence.
- Translate ambiguous requirements from cross-functional business partners into data models and technical designs, and drive alignment across teams with competing priorities.
- Serve as the technical lead and subject matter expert for business data within the Systems Engineering team.
- Mentor other engineers and review their designs and code, raising the team's proficiency in data modeling, testing, and pipeline design.
- Write and maintain design documents and data flow documentation for current and target state, so decisions are legible to the team and to partners.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or a similar role, with a deep focus on modeling and transforming business data and a track record of technical leadership on complex, multi-team initiatives.
Skills
Required:SQLPython or TypeScriptData ModelingETL/ELT
Nice to have:dbt or transformation framework
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance
- Generous paid time away including vacation, flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, paid sick time, parental leave, 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 team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to mental health support platform with resources for employees and dependents
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Fivetran
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