Software Engineer II

About the Role

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer II for our Resilience Engineering Team, under the Platform group. Your primary focus will be on design, development, and maintenance of libraries and tools to enable teams at Fivetran to innovate with a quality first approach.  Your contributions will solve complex problems around improving the overall usefulness and adoption of the experimentation platform for the entire product base. You will collaborate with fellow Staff and Senior engineers on ideas, designs, and code reviews. You will also have the opportunity to coach Fivetran engineers to be the best in class. The ideal candidate is highly technical, detail-oriented, creative, motivated, and focused on achieving results.

This is a full-time, in-person position based out of our Oakland office.

Technologies You’ll Use

• Java11, JUnit4, Typescript
• Docker and Kubernetes
• AWS, GCP
• Terraform, WireMock, RestAssured
• Bazel, Circle CI

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain a platform that focuses on improving the performance, resilience and quality of Fivetran products.
• Build proof of concepts and translate successful ones into libraries and tools to maximize Fivetran product’s quality.
• Design solutions and proposals to enable product development teams to iterate faster to create reliable features. 
• Impact Fivetran business across product verticals through the work you do.
• Develop deep expertise in Fivetran's Product,  Infrastructure, and Platform.
• Communicate, coordinate, and align strategy with the engineering team members; make recommendations  to improve reliability, performance, best practices, and processes.
• Work with cross-functional teams (QE, Developers, Product, SRE) across the organization.
• Actively engage with fellow engineers in design and code reviews to ensure we deliver tools that make product development teams' lives easier.

Skills We’re Looking For

• 2+ 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.
• Strong knowledge of and experience with OOP, preferably Java.
• Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP,Azure) and containerization methodologies like docker, K8s.
• Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like CircleCI/Jenkins.
• Strong written and verbal English skills to support complex analysis.

Bonus Skills​

• Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic, Splunk, DataDog is a plus
• Knowledge of Data Engineering is a plus
• Knowledge of Performance Engineering is a plus