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Senior Software Engineer

Fivetran· Engineering Department
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Hybrid (Oakland, CA)$174.9k - $209.9kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer role at Fivetran (Oakland, CA) focused on building enterprise-grade software, scalable data pipelines, performance, security, and collaboration across teams during a transitional period with dbt Labs integration.

Responsibilities

  • Design 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
  • Understand and fix challenges related to performance and scalability
  • Participate periodically in on-call rotation
  • Participate in the hiring process
  • Mentor Junior developers
  • Make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree, preferably in Software Engineering or Computer Science
  • 5+ 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
  • Experience working with distributed systems
  • 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
  • Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization methodologies like Docker, K8s
  • Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like Buildkite
  • Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic/Grafana is a plus
  • Knowledge of AI tools and usage is a plus
  • Bonus: Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms

Skills

Required:JavaSQLBazelBuildKiteDockerKubernetes (K8s)AWSGCPAzurePostgresSoftware design and reviewDistributed systems
Nice to have:AI ToolsObservability tools (e.g., New Relic/Grafana)

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance
  • Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, year-end Global Week of Rest, 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 for employees and dependents
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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