Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data. Fivetran automates data movement across systems, clouds, engines, and tools, while dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering. Together, they support thousands of organizations building a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.

Fivetran is looking for a high-performance, experienced engineer to join the Site Reliability Engineering team. You will take ownership of the overall performance and reliability of Fivetran’s infrastructure, the robustness of the deployment pipeline, and timely and effective incident response and resolution. This is a full-time position based out of the Oakland, CA office with a hybrid work model requiring two days in the office each week.

• Responsible for ongoing reliability and robustness of Fivetran’s production infrastructure by monitoring availability, capacity, and throughput.
• Evolve systems by adding reliability into our product roadmap.
• Coordinate the re-prioritization or fix of critical bugs for support or sales requirements as needed.
• Make recommendations to production infrastructure by interfacing with engineering to ensure 100% availability.
• Ensure scalable artifact deployment to all environments by automation scripts.
• Constantly monitor infrastructure vulnerabilities and remedy them by working with the security team.

• Expertise in managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, and GKE).
• Expertise in Cloud Platforms and related tooling: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Buildkite, Pulumi, and ArgoCD.
• Expertise in Python programming.
• Expertise with Linux operating systems internals and administration.
• Expertise with cloud networking like VPNs, Privatelinks, and Private Service Connect (GCP).
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Bonus: Java, Go programming.

Oakland Pay Range: $232,338—$290,422 USD. Benefits include 100% employer-paid medical insurance, generous paid time away including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays including a year-end Global Week of Rest, volunteer days off, RSU stock grants, professional development and training opportunities, company virtual happy hours, free food, team-building activities, monthly cell phone stipend, and access to an innovative mental health support platform.