Software Engineer
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- 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
- 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
- Participate periodically in on-call rotation
- Make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure
- Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like Buidkite
- Understand how to use AI code assist and coding agents to automatically generate code for features, bugs, testing, and investigation
- Experience in code reviews, design, troubleshooting and testing
- Software engineering foundation - experience designing and developing reusable libraries and experimentation platforms for backend and frontend from scratch leveraging industry best practices
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Software Engineering or Computer Science
- Ability to use conversational AI systems (like Claude, ChatGPT, and internal chatbots) to support researching, authoring, reviewing, and synthesizing various SDLC artifacts
- 3+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems
- Ability to lead software and infrastructure design to satisfy project requirements
- Demonstrated ability to write well-structured and performant code
- Knowledge of Data Engineering is a plus
- Experience programming in an object oriented / systems language such as Java, C++, C# etc
- Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic/Grafana is a plus
- Hands-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