Senior Software Engineer - Billing, Telemetry & Notifications

About the role

Fivetran and dbt Labs are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for 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 shared notification system, and usage and admin reporting. As a Senior engineer you will own major features and components from design to production.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and run features across billing, usage metering, telemetry and notifications, writing high-quality, well-tested production code.
• Own technical projects end to end: requirements breakdown, design docs, estimation and planning, and rollout.
• Help deliver the Fivetran + dbt billing integration, with 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, review code 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; streaming or messaging systems (e.g. Kafka) is a plus.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases and data modeling; Snowflake experience is a plus.
• Ability to lead the design of a feature or service and to spot and fix design flaws in existing systems.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Fluent written and verbal communication, including design docs and cross-functional collaboration.

Required skills

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

What we offer

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick time, parental leave, holidays and a year-end week of rest
• RSU stock grants
• Professional development and training
• Virtual happy hours, free food and team-building activities
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Mental health support platform for employees and dependents