Staff Software Engineer - Prism

Staff Software Engineer - Prism

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About Us</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;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.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;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.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We are building the next foundational layer of the analytics stack: an Enterprise Context Platform that captures, stores, and exposes organizational decision memory.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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 <em>meaning</em>: decisions, intent, rationale, and history — and makes it safely accessible to humans, agents, and applications.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This is a greenfield, high-leverage role with company-level impact.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Prototype apt technical solutions and find best fits for the context engine. Architect and build the core <strong>Context Platform</strong></span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Design schemas and primitives for <strong>Decision Memory</strong> and enterprise context</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Own context storage systems (graph, vector, event/time-based)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Build read/write/query APIs used by agents, products, and external apps</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Design permission-aware, auditable context access</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ensure the context engine is interoperable, portable, and zero-lock-in by design</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Partner closely with agentic systems engineers and product leadership</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What You’ll Own</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Context schemas and schema evolution strategies</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Storage and data modeling choices</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Platform APIs and interfaces</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Security, identity propagation, and audit foundations</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Long-term scalability and correctness of context data</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What You Won’t Own</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Agent behavior or orchestration logic</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Business rules or governance policy decisions</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Product UI or workflow automation</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(Those are consumers of the platform you build.)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Skills&nbsp;We're&nbsp;Looking&nbsp;For</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Significant experience building distributed systems, data platforms, or infrastructure</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Comfort operating in ambiguous, greenfield problem spaces</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Deep expertise in data modeling and schema design</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience designing shared platforms used by many teams</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong instincts around APIs, contracts, and backward compatibility</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ability to reason about systems, not just components</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Bonus&nbsp;Skills&nbsp;(Optional)</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience with knowledge graphs, metadata systems, or search/retrieval systems</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience building systems with governance, auditability, or compliance requirements</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Familiarity with dbt or modern analytics stacks or developer tooling</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Why This Role Matters</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">If this platform is built correctly:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Agents become trustworthy</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Governance scales without slowing teams down</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We become the System of Decision for analytics</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This role lays the foundation for the next S-curve of the company.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">#LI-HYBRID</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">#LI-SA1</span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="p-rich_text_section" style="line-height: 1.3;"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Perks and Benefits</strong></p> <ul> <li>100% employer-paid medical insurance<strong>*</strong></li> <li>Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off</li> <li>RSU stock grants*</li> <li>Professional development and training opportunities</li> <li>Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities</li> <li>Monthly cell phone stipend</li> <li>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.</li> </ul> <p style="line-height: 1.3;"><em><strong>*</strong>May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information</em></p> <p style="line-height: 1.3;"><em>Click <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CdawUwjo1Q1B7ghZJ_owdmmHB8VtqhBu?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a> to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.</em></p> <hr> <p style="line-height: 1.3;">We’re honored to be <a class="c-link" href="https://fivetran.com/blog/hvr-acquisition-series-d" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://fivetran.com/blog/hvr-acquisition-series-d" data-sk="tooltip_parent">valued at over $5.6 billion</a>, but more importantly, we’re proud of our&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://fivetran.com/culture" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://fivetran.com/culture" data-sk="tooltip_parent">core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream</a>. Read about us in&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://fivetran-com.s3.amazonaws.com/news/forbes-aug-sept-2022-digital-reprint-10-21-22.pdf" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://fivetran-com.s3.amazonaws.com/news/forbes-aug-sept-2022-digital-reprint-10-21-22.pdf" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Forbes</a>.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p style="line-height: 1.3;">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 &amp; 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.</p> <p style="line-height: 1.3;">To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlhtp4dGh8o" target="_blank">click here</a> and enjoy our video.</p> <p style="line-height: 1.3;">To learn more about our candidate privacy policy, you can <a href="https://fivetran.com/candidate-privacy" target="_blank">read our statement here</a>.</p> <hr> <p style="line-height: 1.3;"><em>We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. 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 <a href="https://forms.gle/V7k3t4u9j523XkEt6">form</a>. We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.</em></p></div>