Senior Staff Software Engineer
TLDR
Contribute to Fivetran's core application platform team, driving data movement and processing across major cloud infrastructures while leading high-impact engineering initiatives.
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 looking for an experienced engineer to join our core application platform team within the Platform Engineering group. In the next few years, you will focus on contributing to our vision and drive our 10x growth to 25,000+ customers.
If you are excited about contributing to the critical core services that are fundamental to powering Open Data Infrastructure, this opportunity fits you well. As a member of the Platform team, you will design, implement, and maintain the central parts of Fivetran core that are needed to operate the best-in-class, reliable, secure, and scalable data movement platform. You will prioritize quality, efficiency, and reliability of the team's responsibility areas while collaborating effectively with your peers and the rest of the engineering organization. You will use various AI tools to supercharge your productivity.
The ideal candidate exhibits exceptional technical skills, meticulous attention to detail, creativity, motivation, and a result-oriented mindset.
Fivetran platform spans across our core data pipeline processing framework, cloud architecture and infrastructure, internal development systems, security framework, standard components, quality engineering tools, and developer systems and experience. By combining those pillars into a massively scalable platform, we are able to manage data streaming and batch workloads for the three main public clouds: AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Technologies You’ll Use
- AI tools
- Java17, JUnit5
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Temporal
- AWS, GCP, Azure
- SQL, BigQuery
- Bazel, BuildKite
What You’ll Do
- Design, Develop, and Debug: Lead the design, development, and debugging of software for distributed systems, ensuring robust, performant and scalable solutions.
- Lead Projects: Manage and lead high-impact initiatives, coordinating with different stakeholders to ensure timely and quality delivery in an iterative development environment.
- Mentor and Collaborate: Serve as a leading contributor, both individually and as a team member, offering direction and mentorship to other engineers.
- Assure Quality: Maintain high standards for code quality, performance, and reliability, conducting thorough testing and reviews.
- Innovate and Improve: Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for the adoption of new tools and methodologies to improve the development process.
Skills We’re Looking For
- 10+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems.
- Solid software engineering foundation - experience designing and developing reusable libraries and experimentation platforms for backend and frontend from scratch leveraging industry best practices.
- Strong expertise in OOP, preferably in Java.
- Hands-on experience with any cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization tools like Docker and K8s.
- Experience with continuous integration tools like Buildkite and CircleCI.
- Knowledge of observability tools like Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, DataDog is a plus.
- Knowledge of AI coding assistants such as Codex and Claude Code.
- Strong written and verbal English skills to support complex analysis.
Bonus Skills
- Performance engineering background - experience analyzing, troubleshooting and automating performance workloads on large-scale systems.
- Knowledge of data engineering.
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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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Benefits
Health Insurance
100% employer-paid medical insurance
Mental health support
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.
Paid Time Off
Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
Fivetran builds automated data pipelines that simplify data integration for businesses, ensuring they can easily access and utilize their data. Our platform is designed for organizations looking to become more data-driven, delivering reliable connectivity and seamless data management. What sets us apart is our commitment to making data access as straightforward as turning on a light switch.
- Founded
- Founded 2012
- Employees
- 500+ employees
- Industry
- Internet Software & Services
- Total raised
- $730M raised