Senior Staff Software Engineer

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the “modern data stack” for thousands of companies. We are looking for a talented, teamwork oriented software engineer to join our core platform team and perform a healthy mix of design and implementation tasks to advance the technical foundation behind the Fivetran product offering. 

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!), but you will need to have experience working carefully with a high impact software team — especially in environments where the best option may not be obvious, your decisions have cascading implications, and where you sometimes need to measure twice before you cut once. 

A successful candidate will be humble enough to collect diverse input and build consensus, will be experienced and confident enough to be decisive when it’s needed, and will be practical enough to build and iterate on the system while it’s in production. We are also looking for a high level of expertise and productivity with modern software development environments (we use Java).

• Be a 10x engineer of the horizontally-scaled variety (you help 100+ peers get 10% better) 
• Design and implement features and performance improvements in the Fivetran core to create highly scalable distributed data pipelines on the cloud
• Care and feel ownership of our product platform, and leverage your skills towards improving it 
• Advocate for core values, business impact, better engineering, and simple and direct solutions
• Lead engineering-wide initiatives for a number of key technologies
• Work with the Office of the CTO as an active member of our architecture guild
• Build consensus and alignment among many software engineers in other teams and geographies
• Work across the project lifecycle: requirements, design, prototype, implementation, review, release, monitoring
• Review and approve technical design documents and pull requests
• Improve and enhance engineering systems documentation and development processes
• Coach and mentor other software engineers
• Contribute to hiring by participating in the interview process

• Expert level programming in an object oriented / systems language such as Java, C++, C# etc.
• Experienced with end-to-end systems profiling, performance, and optimization
• Experienced working in a cloud environment architecture utilizing AWS, GCP, Postgres, Kubernetes, Docker, CircleCI, or similar technologies
• Demonstrated ability to drive and lead large-scale software engineering projects
• Demonstrated ability to build alignment and drive major architectural changes
• Has developed an ability to write, test, and deploy well-structured and performant code
• Experienced with the formulation of ideas; building proof-of-concept (POC) and converting them to production-ready project
• Experience developing data-processing systems, preferably for an external-facing product
• Demonstrated temperament and interpersonal skills to work effectively at multiple levels ranging from in the trenches with engineers to working with the CTO
• Strong technical communication skills (written and verbal) in English 
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Software Engineering or Computer Science 

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