Senior Manager, dbt Fusion

Oakland, California, United States, AMER · USA - Oakland · Remote · Posted Oct 5, 2026

At a glance

Fivetran is seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Core team responsible for dbt V2, the next-generation Rust-based engine.
This role involves balancing software engineering leadership with product partnership to evolve the engine, SQL language features, and ELT primitives.
The manager will guide a team of approximately 8 engineers while coordinating across cross-functional areas like IDE experiences, adapters, and compute offerings.

Lead, coach, and develop a fluid team of approximately 8 engineers.
Establish clarity across a technically demanding roadmap with multiple stakeholders.
Partner with Product to translate ambiguous requirements into engineering scope, sequencing, and estimates.
Balance new feature development, engine maintenance, framework modernization, and product stability.
Guide end-to-end technical design across the engine and its integration points.
Support engineers in making tradeoffs across product value, technical quality, performance, and delivery risk.
Actively contribute to technical design and implementation alongside the team.
Coordinate initiatives that span multiple teams and systems with peer engineering leaders.
Build an environment that fosters high-quality work and ownership of technical problems.
Shape the next phase of dbt Fusion as a language-aware transformation engine.

Experience leading teams through multiple concurrent priorities and diverse integration points.
Strong software-engineering fundamentals and prior experience as a senior/staff engineer, technical lead, or equivalent hands-on technical leader.
Ability to lead or facilitate system design from problem definition through implementation and delivery.
Ability to translate complex or ambiguous product requirements into credible engineering estimates, milestones, and tradeoffs.
Demonstrated judgment in balancing roadmap delivery with reliability, maintainability, technical debt, and product quality.
Hands-on technical orientation with a willingness to stay close to code and engineering details.

Experience with Rust or another systems programming language, compilers, query planning, language servers, IDE tooling, or developer platforms.
Experience building or operating data transformation, orchestration, warehouse, or execution systems.
Contributions to open-source projects or experience working with open standards.
Familiarity with ecosystems such as Apache Arrow, Apache Iceberg, DuckDB, ADBC, or related data and execution technologies.
Experience with SQL semantics, query optimization, transpilation across dialects, data lineage, governance, or developer-facing language features.
Experience working in a remote-first or distributed organization.
Startup or scale-up experience.

100% employer-paid medical insurance
Generous paid time away from work (vacation, sick time, parental leave, holidays, Global Week of Rest, volunteer days)
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

Role is part of a broader organization that includes remote-first or distributed work practices.