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What this posting asks for

Level: Senior — The title says "Senior".

Main responsibilities

• Design and implement features and performance improvements across the Orchestration team's services — the scheduler, execution harness, and results processing
• Develop, maintain, and test high-quality, maintainable code, and optimize critical paths for performance
• Write technical designs for feature-level work, actively seek feedback, and clearly explain the trade-offs of your decisions
• Participate in and review technical designs and pull requests, providing constructive feedback to the team
• Improve test coverage with comprehensive unit tests and refactor code to drive down tech debt
• Troubleshoot and debug production issues, and follow up on incidents with post-mortems and mitigation plans
• Break features into tasks, structure and execute your own project plans, and contribute to sprint and feature planning
• Collaborate with product managers, QE, customer support, and peers to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability
• Participate periodically in the on-call rotation, and be mindful of security throughout your work
• Use AI tooling — IDE assistants like GitHub Copilot, coding agents like Claude Code, and conversational AI — to accelerate development and to author and revi…

Competencies an interviewer will look for

• Technical skill Core
  In the posting: “With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required.” · “dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights.” · “We're looking for a senior software engineer to join our Orchestration team, which owns the control plane layer of the dbt platform — the scheduler, executio…”
  Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
• Problem solving Core
  In the posting: “Troubleshoot and debug production issues, and follow up on incidents with post-mortems and mitigation plans” · “5+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems, including designing and building backend se…” · “Experience with code reviews, design, troubleshooting, and testing”
  Show it by: Describes a real problem, the options considered and the one chosen; Shows how the cause was found, not just the fix.
• Customer focus Core
  In the posting: “With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required.” · “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…” · “Collaborate with product managers, QE, customer support, and peers to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability”
  Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company.
• Planning and organisation Core
  In the posting: “We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.” · “Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.” · “Together, we're delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through…”
  Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.
• Data and analysis Core
  In the posting: “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.”
  Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.
• Attention to detail and quality Core
  In the posting: “You'll write and review designs, raise the quality bar in code review, use the latest AI tools, and collaborate closely with product and QE to deliver work t…” · “Develop, maintain, and test high-quality, maintainable code, and optimize critical paths for performance” · “Improve test coverage with comprehensive unit tests and refactor code to drive down tech debt”
  Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.
• Communication Core
  In the posting: “Write technical designs for feature-level work, actively seek feedback, and clearly explain the trade-offs of your decisions” · “Ability to independently lead feature-level software and design work that satisfies project requirements, and to clearly explain design trade-offs”
  Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech.
• Teamwork and collaboration Core
  In the posting: “You'll write and review designs, raise the quality bar in code review, use the latest AI tools, and collaborate closely with product and QE to deliver work t…” · “Collaborate with product managers, QE, customer support, and peers to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability”
  Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
• Ownership and accountability Core
  In the posting: “You'll own the design and delivery of features end to end, working across high-throughput APIs and data models to make them faster, more reliable, and more c…” · “Ability to independently lead feature-level software and design work that satisfies project requirements, and to clearly explain design trade-offs”
  Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it.
• Leadership and mentoring Supporting
  In the posting: “Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindf…”
  Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them.
• Adaptability and learning Supporting
  In the posting: “Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive paren…”
  Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted.

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