Senior Software Engineer in Oakland, California at Fivetran
Job Description
Position Title: Senior Software Engineer
From Fivetrans 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. Were proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About Us
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, were 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, were building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. Its an exciting time to join us: were 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.
About the Role
Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer for our data pipeline service to build and work on data pipelines that moves data from various sources to data warehouses. The work is very diverse all the way from patching software to building warehouse data writers, to optimizing the behavior of sync services operating on our global Kubernetes compute cluster.
You will be responsible for ensuring the technical excellence for your team and owned services, by contributing to the code, reviewing code, designing features and mentoring our junior colleagues.
You will understand the key values that make our product great, and implement those values in the many small decisions you make every day as a product designer.
Technologies Youll Use
- Java, PostgreSQL, Cloud Data Warehouses, AWS, GCP, Azure, Temporal, Grafana, Kubernetes, Docker
What Youll Do
- Work on core features of the product, systematic enhancements, and bug fixes
- Write new or optimize the existing data writer platform to load data to warehouses
- You'll be working with Cloud APIs, Datawriters, SQL DBs, SQL Warehouses, etc
- You'll be working on the core data pipeline that moves terabytes of data from all our customer sources to data warehouses by processing data, splitting it into files formats like CSV/AVRO/Parquet, merging and loading to warehouses.
- As a senior engineer in the team, you will own and drive features within the technology team, pitch design ideas, work closely with leads in the team to perform design reviews, and contribute directly to code.
Skills Were Looking For
- Strong technical and problem-solving skills with 5+ years of professional experience writing Java code in the distributed production environment
- Experience in reliable data intensive distributed systems, with an emphasis on high-volume data management platforms that operate under strict SLAs
- Understanding complex SQL merge queries, plans, and their best practices
- Robust and reliable system design skills to satisfy project feature requirements and optimise the existing systems
- Strong troubleshooting skill to debug problems with in existing code, connect the dots, come up with detailed RCA
- Understand how to use AI code assist and coding agents to automatically generate code for features, bugs, testing, and investigation
- Ability to use conversational AI systems (like Claude, ChatGPT, and internal chatbots) to support researching, authoring, reviewing, and synthesizing various SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, Postmortems, Test Plans, and Proposals
Bonus Skills
- Experience with Data Warehouses like BigQuery, Databricks, SQL Like with exposure to their internals
- Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT)
- Experienced working in a cloud environment utilizing AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, BuildKite, or similar technologies.
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Perks and Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
- Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest, 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
Click here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.
Were honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, were 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.
To learn more about Fivetrans culture and what its like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.
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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 form. 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.
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