Sr. Staff Systems Engineer

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Sr. Staff Systems Engineer in USA

Fivetran
Full time
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USA
10/07/2026
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Oakland, CA

Responsibilities

Own canonical data models and define how business concepts map across marketing, sales, billing, and product operations systems.
Define and drive adoption of standards for data modeling, quality, testing, governance, and documentation.
Lead complex migrations, system consolidations, and core integration re-implementations through design, validation, cutover, and stabilization.
Build, review, and ship SQL and Python transformations and production data pipelines.
Design validation, reconciliation, monitoring, alerting, and data quality frameworks for integration health, freshness, and accuracy.
Lead root cause analysis and systemic remediation of complex cross-system data issues.
Translate business requirements into data models and technical designs while aligning technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Serve as a technical lead, review designs and code, and mentor engineers.
Maintain design documents and current- and target-state data flow documentation.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or a similar role, with deep business data modeling and transformation experience.
Expert SQL proficiency, including complex transformations, performance tuning, and large-scale reconciliation.
Strong proficiency in Python or TypeScript and experience building production-grade, tested data pipelines.
Hands-on experience with Salesforce, NetSuite, Coupa, Workday, or Zendesk data models, including a migration, organizational merge, or major re-implementation.
Experience designing and delivering large-scale ETL/ELT solutions and related data quality, validation, and governance frameworks.
Ability to evaluate short-term delivery versus long-term architecture trade-offs and communicate decisions clearly.
Ability to lead through influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders without direct authority.
Preferred experience with dbt or a similar transformation framework.
Preferred experience with iPaaS platforms such as Celigo, Workato, or Boomi and reverse ETL tools.
Preferred experience with AWS or GCP, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD for data pipelines.
Familiarity with AI/ML capabilities for data quality, matching, and automation.

Benefits

Full-time position based in the Oakland, California office with hybrid work indicated.
100% employer-paid medical insurance, subject to country and worker type.
Paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, 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 team-building activities.
Monthly cell phone stipend.
Mental health support platform offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness resources for employees and covered dependents.

Salary: $203k - $253k/yr

Fivetran

Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, helps customers use their data to power everything from AI applications and ML models, to predictive analytics and operational workloads. The Fivetran platform reliably and securely centralizes data from hundreds of SaaS applications and databases int...

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