Senior Staff R&D Software Engineer, Fivetran AI

Fivetran is building the governed context layer for AI agents. We are looking for a Senior Staff R&D Software Engineer to join our fast-growing Fivetran AI team. The team builds Agents Schema, an open standard for storing agent-ready context in the customer's data warehouse, and Context Builder, the managed service that keeps it filled and fresh.

• Identify which emerging AI research and techniques are worth pursuing and set the technical roadmap.
• Prototype new ideas and turn them into production-grade features.
• Define technical direction across Fivetran AI and collaborating departments.
• Build and maintain back-end and front-end systems, from Agents Schema pipelines to the Context Catalog UI.
• Set long-term technical vision for capabilities like AISQL.
• Take ownership of production reliability, including on-call and incident response.
• Set engineering quality standards and mentor senior and staff engineers.
• Use coding agents to automate repetitive tasks.
• Represent Fivetran AI in cross-department planning and contribute to hiring.

• 10+ years of programming experience across Python and/or Java.
• Trusted expert able to influence direction across departments.
• Comfortable reading AI/ML research and turning findings into prototypes and production systems.
• Deep product and market awareness.
• Experience with SQL and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar).
• Willingness to work across the full stack: research, backend, frontend, SRE, and QA.
• Experience using coding agents or similar AI tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor senior and staff engineers.
• Thrives in a startup-like environment.

• Experience with LLM-powered applications (RAG pipelines, embeddings, evaluation frameworks, agent frameworks).
• Familiarity with semantic layers (dbt, LookML, Sigma).
• Experience with MCP ecosystem or AI agent integrations.
• Background in site reliability engineering.
• Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and building data connectors.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, or Docker.
• Contributions to open source AI or data projects.

Denver Pay Range: $219,705.50—$274,631.75 USD.

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance
• Generous PTO, paid sick time, parental leave, holidays
• RSU stock grants
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Mental health support platform