Senior Manager, dbt Fusion

USA - OaklandFull-time$228k2026-10-05 → 2026-11-11

Core

Lead the Core team building and evolving the Rust-based engine for dbt Fusion, focusing on the dbt V2 runtime, SQL language features, and new ELT primitives.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager (hands-on IC)

Builds

dbt Fusion (language-aware transformation engine), dbt V2 runtime, and LakeCompute

Domain

Data transformation, query engines, and developer tools

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

People leadership, software engineering fundamentals, system design, product partnership, technical tradeoff judgment, hands-on coding

Preferred skills

Rust, compilers, query planning, language servers, data orchestration, open-source contributions, SQL semantics, remote-first operations

Technologies

Rust, dbt, SQL, LakeCompute, Apache Arrow, Apache Iceberg, DuckDB, ADBC

Responsibilities

Lead and coach a team of ~8 engineers, establish roadmap clarity, partner with Product on scope/estimates, guide end-to-end technical design, support engineers in tradeoffs, coordinate cross-team initiatives, contribute to technical implementation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

About Fivetran

Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data. Together, 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. Fivetran 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.