Sr Principle Engineering Architect

<div class="content-intro"><p>From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We’re looking for a Sr Architect Engineer for a dashboard and data modeling interface. Must be an experience Sr leader, and also an operator proficient with modern tooling stacks and AI assistants. Will be responsible for organizing and implementing much of the work around a new highly integrated product offering and an open source repo.</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">You’ll also be responsible for ensuring the technical excellence of our code and owned services, by reviewing code, contributing to architectural designs, and mentoring your junior colleagues.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This is a full-time hybrid role based out of our Oakland, CA office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Technologies You’ll Use</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Python, Django, Javascript, Claude Code, MCPs, Data Warehouses, SQL, Visualization Libraries.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What You’ll Do</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Build out a profiling engine for the automatic curation of extra schema metadata and a semantic typing system for use by data modelers and AI context</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Own and implement many core product features</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Drive and execute deep integrations into existing products and platform</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Balance features, scope and speed</span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Skills We’re Looking For</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Engineering mastery</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Architectural skill - able to see the simple and efficient paths</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">AI coding tool proficiency and effectiveness</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Scope simplification</span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">For example, our required AI competencies for Engineering:</span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Understand how to use AI code assist and coding agents to automatically generate code for features, bugs, testing, and investigation</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ability to use conversational AI systems (like Claude, ChatGPT, and internal chatbots) to support researching, authoring, reviewing, and synthesizing various SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, Postmortems, Test Plans, and Proposals</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">#LI-HYBRID #LI-AM1<br></span></p> <p> </p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one ... (truncated, view full listing at source)