Senior Manager, dbt Fusion
Fivetran · Denver, Colorado, United States, AMER
About this role
## About the Role We’re looking for a hands-on **Senior Engineering Manager** to lead the **Core** team behind **dbt V2**, dbt’s next-generation engine. This is a backfill role for an engineering leader who can combine strong software-engineering judgment with people leadership, product partnership, and the ability to navigate a highly cross-functional technical area. The Core team is responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving the **Rust-based engine** that powers **dbt Fusion**. The team primarily works on the **dbt V2 runtime**, **SQL language features** powered by **Static Analysis**, and **new ELT primitives**. This role sits at the center of several parts of the dbt product: the **engine and orchestration**, the **IDE and developer experience**, **adapters and data warehouses**, and **LakeCompute**. You’ll help the team make sound technical and product decisions while keeping a stable **GA** product moving forward. ## About the Team The Core team is part of a broader organization that includes **adapters**, **growth**, the **VS Code extension**, **compute**, and other closely connected teams. You’ll partner frequently with **Product** and with teams responsible for **orchestration**, **IDE experiences**, **adapters**, and **LakeCompute**. ## In this role, you can expect to: - Lead, coach, and develop a fluid team of approximately **8 engineers** working on a critical part of the dbt product. - Establish clarity across a technically demanding roadmap with multiple product and engineering stakeholders. - Partner closely with Product to translate ambiguous requirements into realistic engineering scope, sequencing, and estimates. - Help the team balance new feature development, engine maintenance, framework modernization, documentation, and the stability of a GA product. - Guide end-to-end technical design across the engine and its integration points with orchestration, the IDE, adapters, warehouses, and late compute. - Support engineers in making sound tradeoffs across product value, technical quality, performance, compatibility, and delivery risk. - Actively contribute to technical design and implementation alongside the team. - Work with peer engineering leaders to coordinate initiatives that span multiple teams and systems. - Build an environment where engineers can do high-quality work, grow their scope, and take ownership of meaningful technical problems. - Help shape the next phase of dbt Fusion as a language-aware transformation engine used by the broader data community. ## Mandatory skills - Experience leading teams through multiple concurrent priorities and diverse integration points. - Strong software-engineering fundamentals and prior experience (details continue in the original posting).
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