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Software Engineer

Fivetran· Engineering Department
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Hybrid (Oakland, CA)$174.9k - $209.9kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Engineer on the core team building and maintaining central parts of Fivetran’s data pipelines to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable data movement. Full-time hybrid role based in Oakland, CA with in-person collaboration two days per week.

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 a high-quality product with 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

  • 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 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

Skills

Required:JavaJUnit5DockerKubernetesCloud platformsSQL
Nice to have:BigQueryBazel/BuildKite

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 with resources for employees and dependents
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Moving data. Powering innovation.

Effortlessly centralize all the data you need so your team can deliver better insights, faster.

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