Senior Staff Software Engineer, Fivetran
$232.3-290.4k
+ RSU stock grants
Office located in Oakland, CA
Automated data movement platform
Open for applications
Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$232.3-290.4k
+ RSU stock grants
Office located in Oakland, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make access to data s simple and reliable as electricity.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive Experience: 12+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in building and operating large-scale distributed systems
- System Design Mastery: Proven ability to design and evolve complex, scalable, and reliable platform architectures
- Technical Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading cross-team technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction
- Strong Programming Skills: Expertise in backend development (Java preferred) with a solid foundation in data structures and system fundamentals
- Performance & Reliability: Experience optimizing system performance, scalability, and cost in high-throughput systems
- Communication & Influence: Strong ability to communicate complex technical ideas and influence senior stakeholders
- Ownership & Ambiguity: Track record of driving ambiguous, high-impact problems from definition to execution
Desirable
- Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms
- Experience working in startup environments
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a brilliant and collaborative individual to join our Performance Engineering Team as a Staff Software Engineer
- Your primary responsibility will be to ensure that our product base meets or exceeds performance standards, driving the overall performance of our products
- This entails proposing and designing performance-enhancing features and improvements
- You will also design and execute performance tests, analyze data to identify performance issues, and resolve these issues proactively
- Additionally, you will monitor system performance over time, identify trends, and recommend improvements
- Collaboratively with engineers from other teams, you will engage in discussions, debates, and code reviews to refine ideas, designs, and code
- Develop and Debug code to identify and fix performance issues
- Analyze production workloads and system performance metrics to identify performance bottlenecks in our system
- Build proof of concepts and translate successful ones into solutions to maximize Fivetran product’s performance and efficiency
- Build and maintain a platform that focuses on improving the performance, resilience and quality of Fivetran products
- Impact Fivetran business across product verticals through the work you do
- Develop deep expertise in Fivetran's Product, Infrastructure, and Platform
- Communicate, coordinate, and align strategy with the engineering team members; make recommendations to improve reliability, performance, best practices, and processes
- Work with cross-functional teams (Developers, Product, SRE) across the organization
- Actively engage with fellow engineers in design and code reviews to ensure we deliver performant solutions that improves the product’s efficiency
Our take
Fivetran is a data integration company focused on one simple idea: making data easy to move and use. It provides a fully managed platform that automatically moves data from hundreds of sources into cloud destinations, helping team centralize information without building or maintaining complex pipelines. So, by handling the heavy lifting behind the scenes, Fivetran allows organizations to spend less time managing infrastructure and more time working on their data.
This approach has a real and growing impact, with more than 700 fully managed connectors, Fivetran supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments and keeps data accurate and secure as it flows into analytics and AI systems. Trusted by over 7,600 customers worldwide, the platform helps businesses standardize how data is collected and shared across teams, breaking down silos and making insights more accessible. And the result is a stronger data foundation that supports faster decision-making and innovation.
In 2025, the company's momentum was also recognized with a Microsoft Marketplace Partner of the Year Award and a finalist spot for Microsoft's Americas Emerging Partner of the Year. These milestones reflect its role in helping enterprises modernize data infrastructure on Microsoft Azure and prepare for AI-driven workloads. By continuing to deepen its partnerships and focus on reliable, automated data movement, Fivetran is well positioned to carry this success forward as organizations increasingly rely on data s the backbone of future intelligence.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$565m
SERIES D
Jun 2020
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $727.7m
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
George Fraser
(CEO)George graduated with a PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Taylor Brown
(COO)Taylor studied Business Administration (focusing on design strategy) at California College of the Arts to Masters level.
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