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Manager, Software Engineering
Fivetran
IndiaremotePosted 1 day ago
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Key highlights
- Location: Bengaluru
- Key Benefit: 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
- Compensation: Market-leading salary and RSU stock grants*
- Role: Engineering Manager (Semantic Layer / MetricFlow)
- Notable Requirement: Experience managing software engineering teams
- Project Type: Stewardship of a public, community-facing open-source project
Role overview
Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies to deliver the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data. We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Semantic Layer team in Bengaluru, owning the health, delivery, and growth of the team behind MetricFlow.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers building MetricFlow — hiring, onboarding, career development, performance management, and day-to-day support.
- Own delivery for the Semantic Layer team: planning, prioritization, execution, and predictable shipping of high-quality software.
- Partner with your senior and staff engineers to set technical direction across metric definitions, query compilation, dimensional modeling, and SQL generation for multiple data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, and others).
- Steward MetricFlow as an open-source project — set the bar for how the team triages issues, reviews external pull requests, manages releases, and engages the community on GitHub and in Slack.
- Collaborate with engineering leaders across the dbt platform, dbt Core, and the Semantic Layer service to ensure MetricFlow integrates seamlessly with the rest of the dbt ecosystem.
- Partner with product, design, and developer-relations counterparts to translate customer and community feedback into a clear, well-sequenced roadmap.
- Drive engineering excellence in performance, reliability, and observability of metric query execution at scale.
- Foster a culture of design docs, thoughtful code review, and durable engineering — shipping fast without shipping sloppy.
Requirements
- Experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management, with a track record of shipping production systems.
- A strong engineering foundation — you've built and shipped production software yourself and can engage credibly on architecture and technical tradeoffs with a senior team.
- Familiarity with the technical domain: SQL fundamentals, how analytical query engines and data warehouses execute queries, and systems that involve parsing, compilation, or transformation (query planners, DSL compilers, type systems, or rule-based engines).
- Solid grasp of software design principles: clean APIs, modularity, testability, and backwards compatibility — and the judgment to hold a team to them.
- Excellent written and verbal communication — you can explain complex tradeoffs clearly to engineers, product managers, and external community members.
- Experience leading in a distributed, asynchronous team environment.
Nice to have
- Experience leading or contributing to a popular open-source project, including managing a community of external contributors.
- Familiarity with dbt, MetricFlow, LookML, Cube, or other semantic-layer technologies.
- Background in data warehousing internals, query optimization, or analytical SQL dialects.
- Experience with CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and release engineering for Python libraries.
- Exposure to building developer-facing APIs, SDKs, or CLIs.
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.
Additional details
- Location: Bengaluru
- *May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information.
- Competitive compensation: Market-leading salary, equity, comprehensive health insurance, generous time off, learning and wellness stipends, and home-office support.
- Impact at scale: Your team's code will run inside the data platforms of tens of thousands of companies, including some of the world's largest enterprises.
- Open-source ownership: You'll lead the team behind a foundational open-source project — visible, reviewed, and used by the global data community.
- A team that values craft: We invest in design docs, code review, and durable engineering. We ship fast, but we don't ship sloppy.
- Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission.
- 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.
- The Semantic Layer team owns the systems that turn dbt models into trusted, reusable business metrics via MetricFlow.
- We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream.
- Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce.