Staff Software Engineer

USA - Remote - NYFull-time2026-11-05 → 2026-11-10

Core

Building a next-generation analytics engine in Rust to improve performance, correctness, and developer experience for dbt workflows.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Systems/Database)

Builds

State-aware execution engine, services, and APIs for the dbt Fusion platform

Domain

Data infrastructure, query engines, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Rust, Python, Go, Java, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform), system architecture, SQL understanding

Preferred skills

Open source contributions (Apache Arrow, DuckDB), database systems expertise, performance optimization, observability

Technologies

Rust, Python, Go, Java, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Product, Design, and Security to deliver scalable compute solutions; Participate in technical architecture discussions for query engines and distributed databases; Build services and APIs supporting high availability; Tackle ambiguous technical challenges with strategic thinking; Drive best practices in testing and system reliability; Champion technical excellence and influence engineering direction

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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.