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Senior Software Engineer

Fivetran· Engineering Department
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Hybrid (Bengaluru)full-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to join the Semantic Layer team in Bangalore. Core contributor to MetricFlow, designing features, optimizing query generation, hardening the open-source codebase, and partnering with the community. High-ownership role involving production code, technical decision-making, and long-term architecture shaping for MetricFlow within the dbt ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain core features of MetricFlow, including metric definitions, query compilation, dimensional modeling, and SQL generation across multiple data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, and others).
  • Own MetricFlow as an open-source project — triage issues, review external pull requests, manage releases, and engage the community on GitHub and in Slack.
  • Collaborate with engineers across dbt Cloud, dbt Core, and the Semantic Layer service to ensure MetricFlow integrates seamlessly with the rest of the dbt ecosystem.
  • Improve performance, reliability, and observability of metric query execution at scale.
  • Partner with product, design, and developer-relations teammates to translate customer and community feedback into shipped improvements.
  • Write clear technical documentation, RFCs, and design docs that raise the bar for how the team thinks and ships.
  • Mentor other engineers through code review, pairing, and technical guidance.

Qualifications

  • Strong professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of shipping production systems.
  • Deep proficiency in Python, including modern typing, testing practices, and packaging.
  • Strong SQL fundamentals and a working understanding of how analytical query engines and data warehouses execute queries.
  • Experience designing systems that involve parsing, compilation, or transformation — e.g., query planners, DSL compilers, type systems, or rule-based engines.
  • Solid grasp of software design principles: clean APIs, modularity, testability, and backwards compatibility.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication — ability to explain complex tradeoffs to engineers, PMs, and external community members.
  • Experience collaborating in a distributed, asynchronous team environment.

Skills

Required:PythonSQLSystems design (parsing/compilation/transformation)Software design principlesCommunicationDistributed teamwork

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance
  • Generous paid time off (vacation, sick time, parental leave, holidays)
  • 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 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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