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Director of Software Engineering – Quality
| Company | Fivetran |
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| Location | Oakland, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $238222 – $297778 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Strong architectural skills with the ability to discuss and influence complex technical decisions with technical founders and architects.
- Experience in building and managing an engineering team of 20+ members comprising managers and individual contributors with varying experience levels.
- Experience in identifying product quality gaps and influencing product teams to drive projects to fix quality gaps.
- 10+ years of experience working in engineering leadership roles.
- Excels at driving adoption of data-driven decision-making, leveraging insights to strategize, prioritize, and coordinate across UX, Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Support.
- Deep experience auditing, measuring, and improving quality practices across engineering and product teams.
- Proven ability to manage, mentor, and develop talent while fostering career growth.
- Can partner effectively with technical architects, product development teams, and non-engineering stakeholders to align technical initiatives with business outcomes.
- Represent the engineering organization in global contexts, including travel to EMEA and APAC regions (up to 2 weeks every 6 months).
Responsibilities
- Leading quality engineering teams to craft, design, orchestrate, and deliberate a product quality vision and strategy.
- Leveraging QE methods and best practices that apply best considering Fivetran’s architecture and infrastructure, ensuring bugs and incidents in production are minimized.
- Maintaining, monitoring, and improving our industry-leading goal of delivering a 99.9+% uptime, bettering the resilience of data pipelines, improving the accuracy and usefulness of customer-facing logs and error messages, and many more.
- Setting goals for the efficiency of continuous integration by leveraging systems test automation for iterating quickly during the development cycle.
- Owning and driving automation deliverables, including tools and library development.
- Owning, iterating, and operationalizing incident & bug management while accelerating the adoption of feature release checklists risk analysis framework to build a quality-first culture within engineering.
- Leveraging your proven track record of hiring and integrating passionate experts, skilled leaders, and architects into the team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in building and/or testing data pipelines or data processing platforms.
- Experience in the development and implementation of product features.
