As the VP of Platform Engineering and an ambitious and experienced leader, you will join our Engineering Senior Leadership Team to adapt and accelerate Fivetran’s platform engineering vision, strategy, and implementation that will drive our 10x growth from 2,500+ customers to 25,000+ customers in the next few years. In this role, you will be responsible for the organization that is architecting, designing, implementing, and running Fivetran’s managed service data movement platform and infrastructure. The underlying services will run highly available, secure, and performant data pipelines tens of millions of times every day. 

If you love the idea of building and operating the world largest, elastic, reliable, secure, and massively scalable data movement platform and you’re intimately familiar with how to do that in AWS, GCP, and Azure (yes, we run in all three), you should talk to us before this highly coveted position is filled. 

Your responsibilities will include all facets of delivering a high-quality and high-availability customer and software engineering experience, including the pre-production developer productivity experience and quality engineering teams. Last, but not least, being an engineer at heart, you are also passionate about building strong relationships across the engineering team to communicate, drive and implement our platform vision and strategy.

Fivetran’s Data Movement Platform

Fivetran’s platform spans our core data pipeline processing framework, our cloud architecture and infrastructure, internal development systems, security framework, common components, quality engineering framework, and our developer systems and experience. Combining those pillars into a massively scaling platform, we are able to manage data streaming and batch workloads for the three main public clouds, AWS, Azure, and GCP.

As Fivetran’s VP of Platform Engineering, you will be responsible and accountable for: 

• Platform Vision, Architecture & Strategy: Your experience managing platform teams enables you to craft, design, orchestrate, and deliberate a platform architecture vision, architecture, and strategy.
• Scalable Cloud Architecture: Using your first-hand experience working with public CSPs, you and your team are designing and delivering a cloud architecture to run 25,000+ customers comfortably with lots of room to scale upwards from there.
• Building and Running our High-Reliability Platform: With a goal of delivering a 99.9+% Uptime customer experience, you will leverage your deep technical knowledge and experience to manage a team that is building and running our platform. 
• Customer Value Delivery: With a strong propensity to make a visible impact and deliver new, improved, secure, and reliable features to our engineering teams and customers every quarter, you’re drawing on your experience to motivate the platform engineering teams to be accountable to customer value delivery.
• Quality Engineering (QE): To drive our industry-leading uptime, you’re leveraging QE methods and processes as well as embedded QE teams embedded in our software engineering teams to ensure that downtime, bugs, and incidents in production are minimized.
• Developer Systems & Experience: You will lean on demonstrated prior experience managing a team that delivers engineering productivity gains by leveraging systems, automations, integrations, and productivity tools. 
• Platform Security: Bringing together our CISO team and your platform teams, you will deliver the most secure data movement platform in the industry, one that holds up to the most rigorous security and compliance standards which will enable us to move data for international and government organizations.
• Common Components: Our platform includes common components such as our data pipeline orchestration framework, data privacy tooling, secret management, and such. Those components are used by our engineers to build the data pipelines and data pipeline frameworks. 
• Platform Business Management: In addition to building and running an industry-leading platform, you’re also focusing on the business aspects of the platform, most notably the ability to drive our gross margin through responsible owner-mentality infrastructure cost management.
• Top-Notch Platform Team: You are leveraging your proven track record of hiring and integrating top-notch leaders and architects and integrating them into the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in building and managing a 50+ team that has built platforms
• At least one prior platform role in a 300+ team member engineering organization before, at the VP level
• 10+ years of experience working in engineering senior leadership teams
• Experience managing managers and managing international teams
• Proven strong people management and career development skills
• Experience in engineering processes, OKRs and KPIs
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with technical founders and non-engineering stakeholders
• Ability to travel internationally (EMEA, APAC) for 2 weeks a quarter
• Background in security, privacy, and compliance (PCI, ISO 27001, SOC2) 
• Master of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math or similar technical fields

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in building in data pipeline or data processing platforms
• Experience in managing developer productivity/efficiency teams
• Experience in managing QA teams