Senior Developer Experience Advocate

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.

About Us

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 every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on.

Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.

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 customers know and trust. It's an exciting time to join us: we're creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.

During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Developer Experience Advocate to join the Developer Experience (DX) team at dbt Labs — a team of dbt experts on the forefront of serving dbt developers and building the next generation of data workflows. We partner across our internal product and go-to-market teams, as well as across the dbt Community, operating using the PRIME framework: Prototype, Represent, Ideate, Maintain, and Enable.

This is a senior, high-impact role for a data engineering generalist who wants to spend their time in public. You will execute developer experience and developer relations work across our product surface — such as dbt State, dbt Fusion, and dbt Wizard, and the Fivetran connector SDK — helping practitioners succeed with our tools and raising our thought leadership in open data infrastructure.

We are looking for someone with broad, hard-won knowledge of the data industry: how data teams actually work, where the tooling helps, and where it gets in the way. You will translate that knowledge into content, prototypes, community engagement, and product feedback. AI is reshaping parts of this landscape and you should be comfortable working with it and curious about where it goes.

This is a highly autonomous role. You will set your own priorities, communicate them clearly, and deliver high-quality work without heavy direction. In exchange you get real ownership of a focus area, significant internal and external visibility, and leadership that protects your time rather than managing your calendar. We're looking for someone who can hit the ground running — shipping meaningful work within their first two weeks.

This is a full-time, fully remote position based in the United States. This role reports to the Director of Community, Developer Experience & AI.

What You'll Do

Design and build prototypes, reference implementations, and example repositories that show practitioners how to get real work done with our tools

Create working prototypes that validate product direction and accelerate engineering iteration

Build tooling that removes friction from common analytics engineering workflows

Author technical content for the dbt Developer Blog, guides, and documentation that makes complex concepts actionable for practitioners

Publish knowledge and best practices on data and analytics engineering that establish you as a resource in your product area

Develop enablement resources for internal teams and the dbt Community, and contribute to product launches as a subject matter expert

Represent your product area as a community voice across Community Slack, GitHub, conferences, and public forums

Collect and synthesize community feedback, surfacing insights to product and engineering, and bring the practitioner perspective into product design reviews

Identify and flag sharp edges, regressions, or gaps in the developer experience

Maintain and triage relevant open source repositories and community projects, contributing code and design reviews with an eye toward developer ergonomics