Staff Software Engineer

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3 Locations
Hybrid
Mid level
Big Data • Cloud • Software • Database
Fivetran is the leader in modern data movement.
The Role
As a Staff Software Engineer at Fivetran, you will contribute to the core application platform, focusing on designing, implementing, and maintaining critical data pipelines for optimal data movement. You will ensure quality, efficiency, and reliability while collaborating with peers and driving growth for the company.
Summary Generated by Built In

<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><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><strong><br>About the Role:<br><br></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fivetran is looking for an experienced engineer to join our core application platform teams within the Platform Engineering Group. In the next few years, you will focus on contributing to our vision, to drive our 10x growth from 2,500+ customers to 25,000+ customers.<br>&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If the idea of contributing to the critical and core services that drive the fundamental functioning and building blocks of data processing involved in our data pipelines, this opportunity fits you well. As an engineer on the core team, you will design,&nbsp; implement, and maintain the central parts of our data pipelines needed to operate the best-in-class reliable, secure, and scalable data movement.&nbsp; You will prioritize the quality, efficiency, and reliability of the responsibility areas of the team while collaborating effectively with other peers and the rest of the engineering organization.<br><br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The ideal candidate exhibits exceptional technical skills, meticulous attention to detail, creativity, motivation, and a results-oriented mindset.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><strong>About Fivetran’s Data Movement&nbsp;<br><br></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fivetran’s platform spans our core data pipeline processing framework, cloud architecture and infrastructure, internal development systems, security framework, standard components, quality engineering framework, and developer systems and experience. By combining those pillars into a massively scaling platform, we are able to manage data streaming and batch workloads for the three main public clouds: AWS, Azure, and GCP.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is a full-time position based out of our <span class="emphasis">Bangalore office.</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br>Technologies You’ll Use<br><br></span></strong></p>
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<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Java17, JUnit5</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Docker and Kubernetes</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">AWS, GCP, Azure</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">SQL, BigQuery</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bazel, BuildKite</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br>What You’ll Do<br><br></span></strong></p>
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<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><strong>Design, Develop, and Debug:</strong> </strong>Lead the design, development, and debugging of software for distributed systems, ensuring robust, performant and scalable solutions.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><strong>Project Leadership:</strong> </strong>Manage and lead multiple projects simultaneously, coordinating with different stakeholders to ensure timely and quality delivery in an iterative development environment.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><strong>Mentorship and Collaboration:</strong> </strong>Serve as a leading contributor, both individually and as a team member, offering direction and mentorship to other engineers.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><strong>Quality Assurance:</strong> </strong>Maintain high standards for code quality, performance, and reliability, conducting thorough testing and reviews.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><strong>Innovation and Improvement:</strong> </strong>Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for the adoption of new tools and methodologies to improve the development process.</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br>Skills We’re Looking For<br><br></span></strong></p>
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<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Software engineering foundation - experience designing and developing reusable libraries and interfaces leveraging industry best practices.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complicated projects.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong knowledge of and experience with OOP, preferably Java.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP,Azure) and containerization methodologies like docker, K8s.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like Buildkite/Circle CI</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong written and verbal English skills to support complex analysis.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic, Grafana is a plus</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Knowledge of Data Engineering is a plus</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Optional Bonus Skills​<br><br></span></strong></p>
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<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Performance Engineering background is a plus - experience analyzing, troubleshooting and automating performance workloads on large-scale systems</span></li>
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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>

Top Skills

Java
The Company
HQ: Oakland , CA
1,200 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

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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