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Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Oakland, USAHybridPosted 3 weeks ago

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Job type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Level
Staff
Department
Engineering
Experience
Not listed
Posted
Sep 11, 2026

About the role

About Us

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. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.

As we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.

During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.

About the Role

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

Fivetran is looking for a high-performance, experienced engineer to be a part of a team of Site Reliability Engineers. You will be working closely with engineering teams, product managers, as well as support and sales engineers to build the future of the Fivetran Data Platform Reliability.

As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, you will take ownership of the overall performance and reliability of Fivetran’s infrastructure, the robustness of the deployment pipeline, as well as timely and effective incident response and resolution. You will take responsibility for the growth and stability of Fivetran’s infrastructure, and be a key player driving effective incident response and overall issue avoidance.

What You’ll Do

  • Responsible for ongoing reliability and robustness of Fivetran’s production infrastructure by monitoring availability, capacity, and throughput.
  • Evolve systems by adding reliability into our product roadmap
  • Coordinate the re-prioritize or fix critical bugs for support or sales requirements as needed
  • Make recommendations to production infrastructure by interfacing with engineering to ensure 100% availability
  • Ensure scalable artifacts deployment to all environments by automation scripts
  • Constantly monitor infrastructure vulnerabilities and remedy them by working with the security team

Skills We’re Looking For

  • Expertise in managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS and GKE)
  • Expertise of Cloud Platforms and related tooling: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Buildkite, Pulumi and ArgoCD
  • Expertise in Python Programming.
  • Expertise with Linux operating systems internals and administration
  • Expertise with cloud networking like VPNs, Privatelinks, and Private Service connect (GCP)
  • Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL

Bonus Skills

  • Bonus if you have Java, GO Programing

Perks and Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance
  • Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
  • RSU stock grants
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.