Principal Software Engineer - Data Lakes

<div class="content-intro"><p>From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.</p></div><div>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We're seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical architecture, design, and development of Fivetran’s Data Lake product offering. Our Data Lake architecture ensures our customers have queryable data without any transformations. We strive to continuously improve our Data Lake solution for scalability, better performance, and ease of customer use.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This full-time position is based out of Germany and is open to the remote workforce.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>Technologies You’ll Use</strong></span></div>
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<li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, New Relic</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Iceberg, Delta Lake, Parquet, DuckDB</span></li>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Partner closely with product teams to understand requirements and design cutting-edge new capabilities that go directly into customer’s hands.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Design, develop, implement, and operate highly reliable large-scale data lake systems in cooperation with a dedicated data lake engineering team.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Contribute to open-source projects such as DuckDB.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Embrace Fivetran innovations with open-source standards and toolsets.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ensure operational excellence of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding security, reliability, availability, and performance.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Set technical directions and influence cross-functional teams.</span></li>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>Skills We’re Looking For</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">5+ years of hands-on or research experience with high-performance relational data management systems.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Deep understanding of infrastructure &amp; software optimizations and performance engineering to drive significant performance, latency, and availability improvements.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complicated projects.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Strong development skills in Java and C++.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Solid experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Demonstrated knowledge of columnar storage formats.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Growth mindset and excitement about breaking the status quo by seeking innovative solutions.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Excellent team player who is consistent in making everyone around you better.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Strongly prefer an MS or PhD in Computer Science, ideally focusing on database management and/or storage engines.</span></div>
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<p class="p-rich_text_section" style="line-height: 1.3;"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Perks and Benefits</strong></p>
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<li>100% employer-paid medical insurance<strong>*</strong></li>
<li>Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off</li>
<li>RSU stock grants*</li>
<li>Professional development and training opportunities</li>
<li>Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities</li>
<li>Monthly cell phone stipend</li>
<li>Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.</li>
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<p style="line-height: 1.3;"><em><strong>*</strong>May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information</em></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.3;"><em>Click <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CdawUwjo1Q1B7ghZJ_owdmmHB8VtqhBu?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a> to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.</em></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.3;">We’re honored to be <a class="c-link" href="https://fivetran.com/blog/hvr-acquisition-series-d" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://fivetran.com/blog/hvr-acquisition-series-d" data-sk="tooltip_parent">valued at over $5.6 billion</a>, but more importantly, we’re proud of our&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://fivetran.com/culture" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://fivetran.com/culture" data-sk="tooltip_parent">core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream</a>. Read about us in&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://fivetran-com.s3.amazonaws.com/news/forbes-aug-sept-2022-digital-reprint-10-21-22.pdf" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://fivetran-com.s3.amazonaws.com/news/forbes-aug-sept-2022-digital-reprint-10-21-22.pdf" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Forbes</a>.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.3;">Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion &amp; belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.3;">To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlhtp4dGh8o" target="_blank">click here</a> and enjoy our video.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.3;">To learn more about our candidate privacy policy, you can <a href="https://fivetran.com/candidate-privacy" target="_blank">read our statement here</a>.</p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.3;"><em>We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this <a href="https://forms.gle/V7k3t4u9j523XkEt6">form</a>. We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.</em></p></div>