# Engineering Manager, Metadata

**Company:** [Fivetran](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fivetran)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $187k – $233k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, cloud computing, GraphQL, APIs, multi-tenant systems, metadata systems, data catalog, data lineage, discovery systems, dbt, Incident Response, github copilot, Claude Code, ChatGPT
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> Leads the Metadata engineering team responsible for discovery APIs, catalog, lineage, and run-history services. The manager owns delivery, architecture, reliability, operational health, stakeholder planning, and engineer development in a distributed cloud environment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Lead and grow a team of software engineers, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, career development, and regular one-on-ones.
- Own project delivery against quarterly plans and accountability for service reliability and performance, including uptime and latency targets.
- Review technical designs and code and provide architecture-focused feedback.
- Drive resolution of incidents, bugs, technical debt, and post-mortems within SLA and metric targets.
- Partner with product and business stakeholders on planning and maintain a prioritized project backlog.
- Communicate engineering vision, strategy, team progress, and business impact.
- Ensure engineering development processes are implemented and consistently followed.
- Delegate effectively and build team autonomy and a positive, high-trust culture.
- Address performance issues and conflict promptly and fairly.
- Establish effective use of AI tooling, including IDE assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI, across software development and SDLC artifacts.

## Requirements

- Experience managing and growing a software engineering team, including hiring, coaching, and full performance and career-development cycles.
- Strong technical foundation with the ability to review designs and code and make architectural trade-offs in distributed, cloud-based systems.
- Track record of delivering complex projects on schedule while maintaining quality, reliability, and performance standards.
- Experience owning production services and driving operational health through incident response, on-call practices, technical-debt reduction, and SLA achievement.
- Ability to plan and prioritize with product partners and drive strong sprint and quarterly completion rates.
- Clear and effective communication with teams, adjacent teams, and stakeholders.
- Fluency with AI code assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI such as Claude and ChatGPT.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Experience building or operating metadata, catalog, lineage, or discovery/search systems.
- Experience with GraphQL APIs and high-throughput, multi-tenant data services.
- Familiarity with analytics engineering workflows and the dbt ecosystem.
- Experience supporting enterprise or single-tenant customers with strict reliability and latency requirements.

## Compensation and Benefits

- Denver pay range: **$186,701–$233,376 USD**.
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance.
- Paid time off, paid sick time, parental leave, holidays, a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days.
- RSU stock grants.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- Monthly cell phone stipend.
- Mental health support platform with therapy, coaching, and mindfulness resources.

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