Senior Systems Engineer - R&D Business Systems
fivetran
Novi Sad, South Bačka, Serbia, EMEA
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Systems Analyst
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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
Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. We’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer, R&D Business Systems who will play a key role in maintaining, evolving, and scaling our internal R&D systems ecosystem, including Jira and related Atlassian products, knowledge management platforms, operational tooling, integrations, and business process automations.
As part of our R&D Business Systems team, you will be responsible for providing day-to-day support for our Jira environment, its integrations and automations, while also driving enterprise-level projects involving workflow design, systems integration, operational tooling, migrations, and process improvements across the broader R&D systems landscape.
You will also have the opportunity to work beyond Jira and support platforms such as Notion, Incident Management systems, Zendesk, and other engineering and operational systems. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating across systems administration, automation engineering, integrations, operational support, and platform optimization.
You will be able to offer up your technical expertise to identify, analyze, and develop solutions to complex business problems. You will play a key role in the maintenance, configuration, governance, reliability, and optimization across the systems you support. Our ideal candidate will possess in-depth knowledge of Jira administration and governance best practices, while also demonstrating the ability and desire to support and evolve a broader ecosystem of internal operational tools and automations.
This is a full-time position based out of our Novi Sad office. 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.
Technologies You’ll Use
Jira (including ScriptRunner, Automations, Webhooks, Rich Filters, Forms), Notion, Zendesk, Slack, Incident Management systems, GitHub, and related operational and workflow tooling are examples of systems/technologies that you may encounter day to day. Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Terraform is a plus.
An ideal candidate will be willing to explore, support, and become the local expert in new systems and operational tooling as our environment evolves.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the configuration, customization, automation, and operational support of Jira and related R&D systems in alignment with business processes, operational requirements, governance standards, and Fivetran’s Feature Development Lifecycle.
- Design and implement scalable automations, integrations, workflows, and operational processes across systems such as Jira, Notion, Zendesk, Incident Management systems, GitHub, and other internal tooling platforms.
- Support implementation, migration, optimization, and operationalization of new tools and business workflows across the R&D systems ecosystem.
- Provide exceptional user support, troubleshoot issues, perform RCA, participate in operational support and on-call processes, and ensure recurring issues are resolved through documentation, training, automation, or system improvements.
- Administer the day-to-day operations of our global Jira environment, including integrations, webhooks, monitoring, governance, user management, upgrades, and operational maintenance.
- Create and maintain detailed documentation for system configurations, automations, integrations, operational procedures, and technical designs.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Support, and Operations teams to understand business needs and design scalable technical solutions.
- Think broadly about systems, workflows, and dependencies to create maintainable long-term solutions beyond the immediate request.
Skills We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of experience administering and supporting enterprise-scale Jira Cloud environments.
- Strong skills in Jira system configuration, automation, scripting via ScriptRunner or custom apps, Jira Query Language, Rich Filters, dashboards, and workflow design.
- Experience integrating and supporting operational systems and tooling ecosystems across engineering and business workflows.
- Strong understanding of systems architecture, integrations, automations, and operational support processes.
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and deliver them collaboratively within a team environment.
- Experience supporting business-critical systems, including operational support and participation in on-call rotations.
- Familiarity with operational tooling, incident management platforms, knowledge management systems, and workflow automation practices.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and tooling such as Terraform is a plus.
- Eager to learn and expand into new systems, tooling, and operational domains beyond Jira administration.
- Strong communication skills and attention to detail.
Bonus Skills
- Experience with operational and incident management tooling such as Grafana IRM, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, or similar platforms.
- Experience supporting migrations between internal systems, tooling platforms, or workflow ecosystems.
- Experience as a software engineer/systems analyst, or as a systems engineer applying software development principles to internal systems
- Public company experience and a working understanding of system and process controls
- Proficiency in general-purpose programming languages, SQL, and general data literacy and querying data warehouses.
- Experience in Jira custom apps creation.
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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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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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