Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Signals

About the role

Fivetran is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join Cloud Signals, the team behind the systems that measure, bill and communicate with customers across the dbt platform and the combined Fivetran + dbt product. Cloud Signals owns billing and usage metering, the Vortex telemetry and event pipeline, the Notification System, and usage and admin reporting. As a senior engineer you will own major features and components from design to production and act as a go-to technical voice on the team.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and run features across billing, usage metering, telemetry and notifications, writing well-tested production-ready code.
• Own technical projects end to end: requirements breakdown, design docs, estimation and rollout.
• Help deliver the Fivetran + dbt billing integration, focusing on correct usage data, reliable pipelines and smooth migrations.
• Improve Vortex and the Notification System by adding event types and use cases, improving reliability and lowering cost.
• Work with Product, Finance, Data and partner engineering teams, filling gaps in specs and prototyping.
• Take part in on-call, investigate and resolve production issues, contribute to postmortems and improve alerting and runbooks.
• Mentor early-career engineers, give constructive code reviews and promote good engineering practices.

Required profile

• 5+ years building and operating production software, with a passion for complex engineering problems.
• Strong experience designing and building backend services and APIs, with attention to correctness, reliability and data integrity.
• Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures; exposure to streaming or messaging systems is a plus.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases and data modeling; experience with a cloud data warehouse such as Snowflake is a plus.
• Ability to lead the design of a feature or service and to spot and fix design flaws in existing systems.
• Fluency with AI code assistants and coding agents for building features, fixing bugs, testing and investigating, and with conversational AI for researching and writing SDLC artifacts.

Required skills

• Python and TypeScript for backend services and APIs (Rust, Go or Java experience also welcome).
• Relational databases (PostgreSQL) and cloud data warehouses (Snowflake).
• Event streaming and messaging systems (Kafka or similar).
• AWS (GCP or Azure exposure), Docker and Kubernetes.
• Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Datadog for observability, alerting and on-call.
• CI/CD, REST APIs, billing and payment platforms.
• Bonus: billing/metering systems, telemetry/analytics pipelines, notification platforms, ETL/ELT, dbt, SaaS platforms at scale.

What we offer

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance (may vary by country and worker type).
• RSU stock grants (may vary by country and worker type).
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick time, parental leave, holidays and a year-end week of rest.
• Professional development and training, virtual happy hours, free food and team-building activities.
• Monthly cell phone stipend and a mental health support platform for employees and dependents.