Senior Staff Software Engineer, Fivetran
Automated data movement platform
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Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make access to data s simple and reliable as electricity.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems
- Solid software engineering foundation - experience designing and developing reusable libraries and experimentation platforms for backend and frontend from scratch leveraging industry best practices
- Strong expertise in OOP, preferably in Java
- Hands-on experience with any cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization tools like Docker and K8s
- Experience with continuous integration tools like Buildkite and CircleCI
- Knowledge of observability tools like Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, DataDog is a plus
- Knowledge of AI coding assistants such as Codex and Claude Code
- Strong written and verbal English skills to support complex analysis
Desirable
- Performance engineering background - experience analyzing, troubleshooting and automating performance workloads on large-scale systems
- Knowledge of data engineering
What the job involves
- Fivetran is looking for an experienced engineer to join our core application platform team within the Platform Engineering group. In the next few years, you will focus on contributing to our vision and drive our 10x growth to 25,000+ customers
- If you are excited about contributing to the critical core services that are fundamental to powering Open Data Infrastructure, this opportunity fits you well
- As a member of the Platform team, you will design, implement, and maintain the central parts of Fivetran core that are needed to operate the best-in-class, reliable, secure, and scalable data movement platform
- You will prioritize quality, efficiency, and reliability of the team's responsibility areas while collaborating effectively with your peers and the rest of the engineering organization
- You will use various AI tools to supercharge your productivity
- The ideal candidate exhibits exceptional technical skills, meticulous attention to detail, creativity, motivation, and a result-oriented mindset
- Fivetran platform spans across our core data pipeline processing framework, cloud architecture and infrastructure, internal development systems, security framework, standard components, quality engineering tools, and developer systems and experience
- By combining those pillars into a massively scalable platform, we are able to manage data streaming and batch workloads for the three main public clouds: AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Design, Develop, and Debug: Lead the design, development, and debugging of software for distributed systems, ensuring robust, performant and scalable solutions
- Lead Projects: Manage and lead high-impact initiatives, coordinating with different stakeholders to ensure timely and quality delivery in an iterative development environment
- Mentor and Collaborate: Serve as a leading contributor, both individually and as a team member, offering direction and mentorship to other engineers
- Assure Quality: Maintain high standards for code quality, performance, and reliability, conducting thorough testing and reviews
- Innovate and Improve: Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for the adoption of new tools and methodologies to improve the development process
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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