From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

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.

Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.

Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers.



We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.

To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.

If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this form . 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.

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
- 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
- 5+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems, including designing and building backend services and reusable components from the ground up
- Demonstrated ability to write well-structured, performant, and well-tested code
- Ability to independently lead feature-level software and design work that satisfies project requirements, and to clearly explain design trade-offs
- Experience with code reviews, design, troubleshooting, and testing
- Proficiency in a modern backend or systems language such as Python, Java, C++, or C#
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Fluent in using AI code assistants and coding agents to generate and investigate code, and conversational AI (e.g. Bonus Skills

Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based data platforms

Experience building or working with metadata, catalog, lineage, or discovery/search systems

Experience with GraphQL APIs and high-throughput, multi-tenant data services

The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for current hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. 139,869 — $167,849.50 CAD

100% employer-paid medical insurance *

- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays (including a year end Global Week of Rest), and volunteer days off
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend

📌 Senior Software Development Engineer, Engineering - Software Development (Canada)
🏢 Fivetran
📍 Canada