Staff Software Engineer - Prism
Fivetran
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, APACPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
Engineering DepartmentSoftware EngineerSoftware DeveloperSystem DesignEngineeringdesigningsecuritybuildingdesignAPIsdbtAI
Key highlights
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance
- RSU stock grants
- Significant experience building distributed systems, data platforms, or infrastructure
- Deep expertise in data modeling and schema design
- Generous paid time‑off policy including parental leave, holidays, and volunteer days
- Greenfield, high‑leverage role with company‑level impact
Role overview
We are building the next foundational layer of the analytics stack: an Enterprise Context Platform that captures, stores, and exposes organizational decision memory. As a seasoned engineer on Context Platform Systems, you will architect and build the durable memory substrate that powers agentic analytics workflows. This platform stores not just metadata, but meaning: decisions, intent, rationale, and history — and makes it safely accessible to humans, agents, and applications. This is a greenfield, high-leverage role with company-level impact.
Responsibilities
- Prototype apt technical solutions and find best fits for the context engine. Architect and build the core Context Platform
- Design schemas and primitives for Decision Memory and enterprise context
- Own context storage systems (graph, vector, event/time-based)
- Build read/write/query APIs used by agents, products, and external apps
- Design permission-aware, auditable context access
- Ensure the context engine is interoperable, portable, and zero-lock-in by design
- Partner closely with agentic systems engineers and product leadership
- Context schemas and schema evolution strategies
- Storage and data modeling choices
- Platform APIs and interfaces
- Security, identity propagation, and audit foundations
- Long-term scalability and correctness of context data
Requirements
- Significant experience building distributed systems, data platforms, or infrastructure
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, greenfield problem spaces
- Deep expertise in data modeling and schema design
- Experience designing shared platforms used by many teams
- Strong instincts around APIs, contracts, and backward compatibility
- Ability to reason about systems, not just components
Nice to have
- Experience with knowledge graphs, metadata systems, or search/retrieval systems
- Experience building systems with governance, auditability, or compliance requirements
- Familiarity with dbt or modern analytics stacks or developer tooling
Benefits
- 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
- 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
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- Agent behavior or orchestration logic
- Business rules or governance policy decisions
- Product UI or workflow automation (Those are consumers of the platform you build.)
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