Software Engineer

Software EngineerFrom 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.Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. We're looking for a talented Software Engineer with a passion for building enterprise grade software to join the team. You will be focusing on developing world-class enterprise capabilities and features in support of our largest and most sophisticated customers. The work we do is both highly visible and critically important to the long term growth and success of Fivetran. You will have an impact across the entire product as we develop our next generation of enterprise, data governance, and solutions engineering offerings.This team is tasked with evolving a high performance extract-load-transform data integration system that enables our connector teams to ship the Fivetran ELT product using powerful abstractions. The role will challenge you to solve problems in the domains of performance engineering, data security, and cluster orchestration. You don't necessarily need to be a subject matter expert before you join us (you will be one before you leave!).We're looking for people who can understand the key values that make our product great and implement those values in the many small decisions you make every day.This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland, CA 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.What You'll DoDesign and implement features and performance improvements to create highly scalable distributed data pipelines on the cloud.Develop, maintain, and test code.Conduct design and code reviews.Collaborate with peers, product managers, customer support, and other stakeholders to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability.Participate periodically in on-call rotation.Make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers' data infrastructure.Skills We're Looking ForBachelor's degree, preferably in Software Engineering or Computer Science.3+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems.Software engineering foundation - experience designing and developing reusable libraries and experimentation platforms for backend and frontend from scratch leveraging industry best practices.Demonstrated ability to write well-structured and performant code.Ability to lead software and infrastructure design to satisfy project requirements.Experience in code reviews, design, troubleshooting and testing.Experience programming in an object oriented / systems language such as Java, C++, C# etc.Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like Buidkite.Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic/Grafana is a plus.Knowledge of Data Engineering is a plus.Understand how to use AI code assist and coding agents to automatically generate code for features, bugs, testing, and investigation.Ability to use conversational AI systems (like Claude, ChatGPT, and internal chatbots) to support researching, authoring, reviewing, and synthesizing various SDLC artifacts.Bonus SkillsHands-on experience working with any cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization methodologies like Docker, K8s.Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms.Oakland Pay Range $140,592 —$168,717.50 USDPerks and Benefits100% employer-paid medical insuranceGenerous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays (including a year end Global Week of Rest), and volunteer days offRSU stock grantsProfessional development and training opportunitiesCompany virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activitiesMonthly cell phone stipendAccess 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