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Firebolt to Hibob integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Firebolt and Hibob in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Firebolt and Hibob

Land the people and organization records from Hibob in Firebolt as live tables for workforce reporting, without extract jobs, and write computed results back where Hibob can use them.

Workforce data is some of the most requested data in the warehouse and some of the most awkward to move: the record types are many, the fields carry sensitive personal information, the APIs are strict, and hand-built extract jobs go stale or break quietly. Whether Hibob is the system of record for employees and payroll, for candidates and applications, or for learners and course completions, the reporting belongs in Firebolt next to everything else the company measures.

Stacksync syncs Lifecycle, Documents, Named lists, People (Employees) from Hibob into tables in Firebolt continuously, handling API limits and schema drift as they come. The connection is bi-directional, so values computed in Firebolt, such as headcount rollups, cost allocations, or attrition risk flags, can be written back to fields in Hibob where the HR team acts on them. You configure which records and fields cross over, and in which direction, instead of maintaining pipeline code.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync CRM objects into Firebolt so customer-facing dashboards reflect recent pipeline changes.
  • 02 Keep dimension tables aligned with source systems while high-volume event data loads through separate batch pipelines.
  • 03 Two-way sync People (employee) profiles and Work records with a Postgres database so internal apps and directories read profiles in SQL while HR corrections flow back into Bob.
  • 04 Auto-provision or deprovision accounts in an IdP, ticketing tool, or app database when Bob Lifecycle events fire employee joined or terminated.

Common sync patterns

Queryable history for planning and audit

A continuously synced copy in Firebolt gives you a durable, queryable record of how Hibob's records change over time, for headcount planning and audit questions.

Write-back of computed values

Segments, rollups, or risk flags computed in Firebolt sync back onto the matching records in Hibob, where the HR team sees them in the system they already use.

HR data in the warehouse, minus the pipeline

People and organization records from Hibob arrive in Firebolt as queryable tables, current within seconds instead of a day behind, replacing hand-built extract jobs.

What you can sync between Firebolt and Hibob

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Firebolt objects Hibob objects How this pairing syncs
Views Curated query surfaces commonly used as sources for reverse ETL. Employment Historical table of job terms, contract, and working pattern under /people/{id}/employment; full CRUD, entries keyed by effectiveDate. Views is specific to Firebolt and Employment to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Aggregating indexes Precomputed rollups maintained at write time; incremental loads update them automatically. Work Reporting line, department, site, and title under /people/{id}/work; drives the org chart and is synced two-way to directories. Aggregating indexes is specific to Firebolt and Work to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Engines Compute resources that must be running for a sync to read or write. Salaries Compensation history at /people/{id}/salaries; full CRUD but gated behind the Payroll permission on the service user. Engines is specific to Firebolt and Salaries to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases Logical containers holding the tables a sync targets. Time off Absence requests and who's-out data via /timeoff/employees/{id}/requests and /timeoff/whosout; submit new requests and read balances. Databases is specific to Firebolt and Time off to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Managed columnar tables written with SQL; the main sync destination. Lifecycle Hire, termination, and leave status changes at /people/{id}/lifecycle; read-only and the source of lifecycle webhook events. Tables is specific to Firebolt and Lifecycle to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
External tables References to files in object storage used to stage bulk loads. Documents Employee documents accessed under the Docs API; gated behind the Documents permission granted per service user. External tables is specific to Firebolt and Documents to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Firebolt and Hibob

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Firebolt Hibob Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Firebolt for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Hibob through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Hibob Firebolt Sub-second propagation

DetectionHibob notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks fire for employee created/updated/deleted, table-entry created/updated, time off, and lifecycle events.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Firebolt as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Firebolt: No fixed request quota; throughput depends on the engine size attached to the workload.
  • Hibob: Rate limits are enforced per service user; violations return HTTP 429 with X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset response headers. The docs list POST /people/search at 50 requests per minute, and bulk /people/search is preferred over per-record reads.
What ships with Firebolt ⇄ Hibob

Connect Firebolt and Hibob for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Firebolt–Hibob connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Firebolt or Hibob instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Firebolt or Hibob data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Firebolt or Hibob record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Firebolt ⇄ Hibob sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Firebolt and Hibob.

How the Firebolt and Hibob connectors work

Firebolt

Integration surface
SQL over a REST API, with JDBC, Python, and Node.js SDKs
Authentication
Service account credentials (client ID and secret) exchanged for OAuth 2.0 tokens
Change detection
Polling; Firebolt is an analytics destination and does not expose a change feed
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No fixed request quota; throughput depends on the engine size attached to the workload

Hibob

Integration surface
REST API (the Bob API)
Authentication
Service User credentials over HTTP Basic auth (Base64-encoded serviceUserId:serviceUserToken); permissions granted per data category (People, Payroll, Documents) in Bob admin
Change detection
Webhooks fire for employee created/updated/deleted, table-entry created/updated, time off, and lifecycle events; the employee.updated payload flags which fields changed and Bob recommends an API call for the full record. There is no CDC stream, and deleting a table entry fires no webhook (Bob has no table-entry deletion event).
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Rate limits are enforced per service user; violations return HTTP 429 with X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset response headers. The docs list POST /people/search at 50 requests per minute, and bulk /people/search is preferred over per-record reads.
Hibob setup guide
How it works

How to connect Firebolt to Hibob — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Firebolt and Hibob with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Firebolt connected
    Hibob connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Firebolt and Hibob objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Firebolt ⇄ Hibob
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Firebolt Hibob
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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