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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.\n**THIS MUST BE FILLED OUT PRIOR TO SUBMITTING. Please do not change the headers for each section below.**\nAbout Us\nFivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.\nTogether, 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.\nFivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. 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It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.\nDuring this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.\nAbout the Role\nFivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.\nAs a Staff Software Engineer working on dbt Fusion, you’ll help build a next-generation analytics engine written in Rust that significantly improves performance, correctness, and developer experience across dbt workflows. You’ll work on a modern, state-aware execution engine with deep SQL understanding across multiple warehouses, enabling faster debugging, smarter orchestration, and more efficient large-scale deployments.\nThis role offers the opportunity to contribute to both open source and commercial code while shaping the future of dbt’s core platform.\nThis position is a unique opportunity to work on mission-critical projects that will significantly improve the experience of our customers and developers. You’ll help build truly differentiated systems and engines that sets us apart from other database technologies.\nWhat You’ll Do\nCollaborate with Product, Design, Operations, and Security to deliver well-architected, scalable compute solutions.\nParticipate in technical architecture discussions with a focus on query engines, storage systems, and distributed database design.\nBuild services, APIs, and experiences that support user delight, quality, high availability, and performance.\nTackle ambiguous, open-ended technical challenges with strategic thinking, balancing technical constraints with user needs and product goals.\nDrive best practices in testing, observability, and system reliability.\nChampion a culture of technical excellence and innovation, influencing engineering direction across multiple teams or domains.\nSkills We’re Looking For\nStrong coding skills (10+ years) in at least one of the following technologies: Rust, Python, Go or Java.\nFamiliarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform).\nProven ability to participate in complex projects and collaborate across functions.\nExcellent problem-solving skills, clear communication, and a strong sense of ownership.\nInterest in systems, data infrastructure, compilers, or analytical tooling, even if experience is primarily academic.\nExperience working on non-trivial projects (coursework, internships, research, open-source, personal projects) that required persistence and iteration.\nWillingness and enthusiasm to work across the stack and learn new technologies as the problem demands.\nEvidence of being self-directed and curious -you proactively learn new tools, languages, or concepts when needed\nBonus Skills\nContributions to open source database technologies projects such as Apache Arrow, DuckDB, MongoDB Runtime, or other analytical data systems.\nExpertise in database systems, query engines, or storage systems.\nExperience with performance optimization, observability, or large-scale query engines.\nPerks and Benefits\n100% employer-paid medical insurance*\nGenerous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.\nRSU stock grants*\nProfessional development and training opportunities\nCompany virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities\nMonthly cell phone stipend\nAccess to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.\n* May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information\nClick here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.\nWe’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes. \nFivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.\nTo learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.\nTo learn more about our candidate privacy policy, you can read our statement here.\nWe are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. 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