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.
About the Role
Fivetran is looking for a talented Staff 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.
Fivetran is the epitome of data-driven-development - our engineering team is focused on building a world class product that:
- Facilitates Data Analytics - join our mission to reliably deliver best-in class schemas, and clean data, designed to be intuitively useful to analysts.
- Contributes to our Community - help develop tools like Data Lakes, SQL-based Transformations, and schema explorers to empower analysts to choose the best tools, and to make those tools more powerful.
- Is Absolutely Dependable - work to make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers' data infrastructure.
We emphasize using no-nonsense code, and take great pride in the simplicity and effectiveness of the systems we build. Our back-end is built on Java, C, Postgres, and Kubernetes, and our front-end is built on React and Typescript.
This is a full-time position based out of our Novi Sad, Serbia office.
Technologies You'll Use
- Java, Postgres, GCP, SQL, BigQuery, Bazel, BuildKite
What You'll Do
- Lead the design, development, and debugging of our intuitive best-in-class enterprise capabilities enabling Fivetran's largest customers
- Manage and lead projects simultaneously, coordinating with different stakeholders to ensure timely and quality delivery in an iterative development environment.
- Maintain and improve existing enterprise features; call for improvements in Fivetran's codebase and infrastructure.
- Demonstrably maintain high standards for code quality, performance, scalability, and reliability by conducting thorough testing and reviews.
- Collaborate across engineering on cross-functional projects creating innovative solutions.
- Make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers' data infrastructure.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for the adoption of new tools and methodologies to improve the development process.
- Work closely with the Customer Success and Go-To-Market (GTM) teams to assist in challenging customer situations. Provide technical expertise and solutions to ensure customer satisfaction and support Fivetran's growth objectives.
- Participate periodically in on-call rotation
- Participate in the hiring process
Skills We're Looking For
- 10+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems.
- Strong knowledge of and experience with OOP, preferably Java.
- Writes well-structured and performant code
- Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complicated projects.
- Able to define project requirements and be proficient at designing the software and infrastructure to satisfy them.
- Experience understanding customer requirements and/or problems and breaking them down into engineering tasks
- Be able to efficiently solve problems that unlock valuable use cases for our largest customers.
- Be able to dive into previously written code and both suggest and effect improvements
- Understands and can explain how to build high performance systems and processes
- Enjoy mentoring and growing junior develops
- Have an analytical mindset that helps you identify design flaws in existing systems and drive improvements
- Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization methodologies like docker, K8s.
- Strong written and verbal English skills to support complex analysis.
- Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic, Grafana is a plus
- Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like Buildkite/Circle CI
Bonus Skills
- Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms
- Experienced working in a cloud environment utilizing AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, BuildKite, or similar technologies
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Perks and Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, 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 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.
*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information
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We're honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we're proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
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 & 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.
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What We Do
Fivetran is the global leader in modern data integration. Our mission is to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. Built for the cloud, Fivetran enables data teams to effortlessly centralize and transform data from hundreds of SaaS and on-prem data sources into high-performance cloud destinations. Fast-moving startups and the world’s largest companies use Fivetran to accelerate modern analytics and operational efficiency, fueling data-driven business growth. Fivetran is headquartered in Oakland, California, with offices around the world.
Why Work With Us
At Fivetran, we live by our values daily. In every interaction, it is easy to identify that we work with integrity, we take initiative, and we employ a team-first approach. Our Glassdoor rating is no accident: just as customer experience is a guiding light for us, so is employee satisfaction. Experience ownership, impact, and recognition here.
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