Senior Software Engineer - Metadata

About The Role

Fivetran and dbt Labs is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

We're looking for a senior 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.

Technologies You’ll Use

Python, Rust, GraphQL, Postgres, Snowflake, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Datadog

What You’ll Do

• 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 the team
• Improve test coverage with comprehensive unit tests and refactor code to drive down tech debt
• Troubleshoot and debug production issues, and follow up on incidents with post-mortems and mitigation plans
• Break features into tasks, structure and execute your own project plans, and contribute to sprint and feature planning
• Collaborate with product managers, QE, customer support, and peers to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability
• Participate periodically in the on-call rotation, and be mindful of security throughout your work
• Use AI tooling — IDE assistants like GitHub Copilot, coding agents like Claude Code, and conversational AI — to accelerate development and to author and review SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, post-mortems, and test plans

Skills We’re Looking For

5+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems, including designing and building backend services.