Fivetran
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Oakland, California, United States · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- This is a high-leverage, high-visibility role with three interlocking mandates.
- This position sits at the crossroads of software engineering, platform architecture, and AI-assisted development.
- This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland, CA office.
Responsibilities
- Independently 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
- Ability to independently lead software and infrastructure design to satisfy project requirements
Requirements
- With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required.
- 10+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems
Skills
- Experience working with distributed systems and cloud security concepts
- Demonstrated ability to write well-structured and performant code
- 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 BuildKite
- Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic/Grafana is a plus
- Understand how to use AI code assist and coding agents to automatically generate code for features, bugs, testing, and investigation
- Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms
- Kubernetes, GCP Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL)
Compensation
- The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and l
Company info
- Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.
- Together, we're delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data - from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on.
- Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.
- As we bring our teams and technology together, we're building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It's an exciting time to join us: we're creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.
- During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.
- Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights.
- Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.
- As we bring our teams and technology together, we're building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust.
- It's an exciting time to join us: we're creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.
- Fivetran and dbt
- Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission:
- helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.
- It's an exciting time to join us:
- we're creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.
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