# Staff Software Engineer - Metadata

Fivetran and dbt Labs are building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. We're looking for a staff software engineer to join our Metadata team, which owns the metadata layer of the dbt platform: the discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history services that let customers understand, trust, and act on what their data is doing. You'll own the design and delivery of features end to end, working across high-throughput APIs and data models to make them faster, more reliable, and more capable. You'll write and review designs, raise the quality bar in code review, use the latest AI tools, and collaborate closely with product and QE to deliver work that scales. Responsibilities: Design and implement features and performance improvements across the metadata team's services, discovery API, catalog, lineage, and run history. Develop, maintain, and test high-quality, maintainable code, and optimize critical paths for performance. Write technical designs for feature-level work, actively seek feedback, and clearly explain the trade-offs of your decisions. Participate in and review technical designs and pull requests, providing constructive feedback to th

- **Id**: 4051033
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/dbt-labs-staff-software-engineer-metadata>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T01:35:30Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T01:35:30Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3711
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Data Warehouses & Lakehouses, Data Transformation & Orchestration

## Company

- **Id**: 594
- **Name**: dbt Labs
- **Domain**: getdbt.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/dbt-labs>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Technologies

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- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Fivetran** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
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- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
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- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **ChatGPT** — Optional: yes
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T01:35:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 44
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T04:13:23Z

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