Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Why this Role is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Customer Support Engineering roles matter in SaaS because they sit at the fault line between product reliability and customer outcomes. In a data-infrastructure company like Fivetran, support is inherently technical, with day-to-day work shaped by APIs, connectors, and the realities of production data pipelines. That combination makes the function a meaningful part of the modern data stack, where “support” often resembles applied engineering and incident triage more than ticket handling.
For a SaaS career, this position builds durable skills in troubleshooting distributed systems behaviors, reading logs, and translating ambiguous customer symptoms into actionable technical findings. Working closely with development on bugs and documenting solutions also reinforces the feedback loop that strong SaaS businesses rely on: learn from real usage, reduce repeat issues, and improve product quality over time. The domain exposure to warehouses and integration patterns is broadly transferable across analytics, ETL, and platform SaaS categories.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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 the Role
Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.We’re looking for a Customer Support Engineer for our API Connector Team. At Fivetran, our Customer Support Engineers (CSEs) take on exciting technical challenges while partnering with internal and external stakeholders to drive issues to a timely resolution. As a Support Engineer, you will partner with some of the most passionate teams in the world, our customer teams, to deliver a best-in-class experience. Through a collaborative and holistic approach that is focused on the resolution and prevention of issues, our CSEs as our customer’s technical champion within Fivetran.
This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of our Denver, CO offices. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.
What You’ll Do
- Provide virtual technical support to Fivetran customers and partners.
- Work closely with Fivetran customers and other stakeholders to ensure high customer satisfaction and timely resolution of reported issues.
- Investigate and Troubleshoot technical issues within the Fivetran environment using logs, internal/external tools, and foundational knowledge of our product and technologies.
- Work closely with Fivetran’s Dev team to identify and resolve bugs and issues impacting Fivetran customers.
- Become a Subject Matter Expert on the Fivetran API Connectors and related technologies.
- Document any known or newly identified solutions in our knowledge base and share this knowledge across the team.
- Collaborate with teammates on technical and non-technical projects.
Skills We’re Looking For
- 2+ years of relevant professional experience
- Strong customer advocacy skills, demonstrated over email and on video calls or screen shares
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Experience troubleshooting APIs, including:
- Making API requests
- Interpreting responses and standard error codes
- Navigating and understanding API documentation
- Basic understanding of networking fundamentals, including the TCP/IP model
- Experience working with databases, both SQL and NoSQL
- Familiarity with basic SQL queries and commands
- Knowledge of and experience with data warehouse infrastructure, such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift
- Ability to read and analyze logs to investigate and identify issues
- Comfortable navigating GitHub and submitting Pull Requests
- Strong, process-oriented troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Ability to thrive in a highly collaborative, global team environment
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The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The compensation range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your location during the hiring process.
Pay Range
$80,489—$96,590.50 USD
The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The compensation range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your location during the hiring process.
Oakland Pay Range
$80,489—$96,590.50 USD
Perks and Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants*
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information
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We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
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