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 that power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.
We’re looking for a Senior Staff Salesforce Systems Engineer with the technical expertise and collaboration skills needed to maintain strong Salesforce design standards across our organization and evolve our Salesforce CRM to the next level to meet the needs of our rapidly scaling global business. In this role, you'll have a direct impact on the technical excellence of the team by advocating for robust architectural practices, particularly when cross-functional partners push for competing priorities.
As a hands-on technical lead, you’ll drive high-quality, scalable solutions within Salesforce while fostering a collaborative team environment focused on continuous improvement. You’ll also engage cross-functional teams like Finance, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and beyond to align technical initiatives with our broader goals, ensuring Salesforce CPQ and related systems serve as a reliable source of truth.
This is a hybrid, full-time position based out of our Oakland office in California.
Technologies You’ll Use
Salesforce CRM, Salesforce CPQ, Apex, JavaScript, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL, Salesforce APIs, Python, HTML, Copado, Git, and web services including WCF, REST, SOAP, XML, and JSON.
What You’ll Do
- Architect and Implement Solutions: Design, develop, and implement advanced solutions within the Salesforce ecosystem using Apex, Lightning Web Components, and SOQL, while ensuring architectural integrity.
- Technical Excellence in Code: Engage in regular design and code reviews, setting high standards for code quality, maintainability, and performance.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure Salesforce architecture aligns with Fivetran’s technical and business goals. Collaborate assertively when technical challenges arise to maintain robust design standards.
- Drive Standards and Best Practices: Establish and enforce best practices across code reviews, deployment, and source control to maintain consistent quality and performance across projects.
- Mentor and Guide Team: Act as a resource for the engineering team, fostering growth in technical skill and helping uphold technical standards, without formal people management responsibilities.
- Advanced Problem Solving: Tackle complex, high-impact technical challenges, particularly around performance and scalability, while maintaining direct technical engagement.
Skills We’re Looking For
- Extensive Salesforce Expertise: 10+ years of experience in Salesforce development and architecture, including deep knowledge of Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL, and Salesforce APIs. Demonstrated ability to design and implement complex, scalable solutions within the Salesforce ecosystem. 2nd Generation Managed Package experience is a plus.
- Technical Grit and Advocacy: Proven ability to engage in rigorous technical discussions with other teams and assertively advocate for sound, sustainable design.
- Internal Leadership without People Management: Skilled in fostering technical growth, innovation, and a high standard of quality within the team, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.
- Enterprise-Level Systems Integration: Strong background in Salesforce integrations with other enterprise systems using APIs, middleware, and IPaaS, with a focus on reliability and scalability.
- Quality Standards and Code Ownership: Commitment to upholding high-quality standards in coding practices, testing, and deployment, with a focus on comprehensive and maintainable solutions.
- Advanced Certifications: Required: Salesforce Developer I & II certifications. Preferred: Salesforce System Architect, CPQ Specialist, or Salesforce Technical Architect.
- Agile and DevOps Proficiency: Proficient in Agile methodologies and DevOps practices within Salesforce, including CI/CD pipelines, Git, and automated testing. Experience with tools like Copado is a plus.
- Clear Communication and Cross-Functional Influence: Strong written and verbal communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical teams, fostering alignment without compromising technical standards.
Bonus Skills
- Salesforce System Architect Certification
- Salesforce CPQ Specialist Certification
- Proven experience developing programmatic components to extend Salesforce Enterprise Territory Management functionality
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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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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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