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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Fivetran· Systems Engineering Department
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Hybrid (Oakland, CA)$232.3k - $290.4kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the engineering behind Fivetran's internal AI-powered application ecosystem, owning a code library and agent rules foundation, building custom apps on top, and shaping AI governance for safe development and deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Independently 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

  • 10+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems - experience designing and developing reusable libraries and experimentation platforms for backend and frontend from scratch leveraging industry best practices
  • Experience working with distributed systems and cloud security concepts
  • Demonstrated ability to write well-structured and performant code
  • Ability to independently lead software and infrastructure design to satisfy project requirements
  • Can identify design flaws in existing systems and come up with improvements
  • 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
  • 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 such as TDDs, PRDs, Postmortems, Test Plans, and Proposals

Skills

Required:Software design and architecture leadershipDistributed systemsCode reviews and testingProgramming languagesCloud and containerizationCI/CD tools
Nice to have:ObservabilityAI coding assistants / SDLC artifactsConversational AI usage

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, including a 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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