Software Engineer III

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.

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. We’re looking for a talented Senior 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.

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!).

We're looking for people who can understand the key values that make our product great and implement those values in the many small decisions you make every day.

This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in‑person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.

• Java
• SQL
• AI Tools

• Design and implement features and performance improvements to create highly scalable distributed data pipelines on the cloud
• Develop, maintain, and test code
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Collaborate with peers, product managers, customer support, and other stakeholders to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability.
• Understand and fix challenges related to performance and scalability.
• Participate periodically in on‑call rotation
• Participate in the hiring process
• Make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure

Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Software Engineering or Computer Science

5+ 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.

Experience working with distributed systems

Demonstrated ability to write well-structured and performant code

Ability to lead software and infrastructure design to satisfy project requirements

Experience in code reviews, design, troubleshooting and testing

Experience programming in an object oriented / systems language such as Java, C++, C# etc

Hands‑on experience working with any cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization methodologies like Docker, K8s.

Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like Buidkite.

Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic/Grafana is a plus

Knowledge of AI tools and usage is a plus

Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms.

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