Manager, Software Engineering

Fivetran is hiring a Manager, Software Engineering in India.

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.

Responsibilities

- Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers building MetricFlow — hiring, onboarding, career development, performance management, and day-to-day support.

- Own delivery for the Semantic Layer team: planning, prioritization, execution, and predictable shipping of high-quality software.

- Partner with your senior and staff engineers to set technical direction across metric definitions, query compilation, dimensional modeling, and SQL generation for multiple data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, and others).

- Steward MetricFlow as an open-source project — set the bar for how the team triages issues, reviews external pull requests, manages releases, and engages the community on GitHub and in Slack.

- Collaborate with engineering leaders across the dbt platform, dbt Core, and the Semantic Layer service to ensure MetricFlow integrates seamlessly with the rest of the dbt ecosystem.

- Partner with product, design, and developer-relations counterparts to translate customer and community feedback into a clear, well-sequenced roadmap.

- Drive engineering excellence in performance, reliability, and observability of metric query execution at scale.

- Foster a culture of design docs, thoughtful code review, and durable engineering — shipping fast without shipping sloppy.

Preferred qualifications

- Experience leading or contributing to a popular open-source project, including managing a community of external contributors.

- Familiarity with dbt, MetricFlow, LookML, Cube, or other semantic-layer technologies.

- Background in data warehousing internals, query optimization, or analytical SQL dialects.

- Experience with CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and release engineering for Python libraries.

- Exposure to building developer-facing APIs, SDKs, or CLIs.

Skills

- Experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management, with a track record of shipping production systems.

- A strong engineering foundation — you've built and shipped production software yourself and can engage credibly on architecture and technical tradeoffs with a senior team.

- Familiarity with the technical domain: SQL fundamentals, how analytical query engines and data warehouses execute queries, and systems that involve parsing, compilation, or transformation (query planners, DSL compilers, type systems, or rule-based engines).

- Solid grasp of software design principles: clean APIs, modularity, testability, and backwards compatibility — and the judgment to hold a team to them.

- Excellent written and verbal communication — you can explain complex tradeoffs clearly to engineers, product managers, and external community members.

- Experience leading in a distributed, asynchronous team environment.

Benefits & perks

- Impact at scale: Your team's code will run inside the data platforms of tens of thousands of companies, including some of the world's largest enterprises.

- Open-source ownership: You'll lead the team behind a foundational open-source project — visible, reviewed, and used by the global data community.

- A team that values craft: We invest in design docs, code review, and durable engineering. We ship fast, but we don't ship sloppy.

- Competitive compensation: Market-leading salary, equity, comprehensive health insurance, generous time off, learning and wellness stipends, and home-office support.

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• 100% employer-paid medical insurance*

• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, 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

About Fivetran

Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data. Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on. Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt L