Software Engineer, Fivetran

$133.9-160.7k

+ RSU stock grants

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP
Java
Terraform
Splunk
Jenkins
Azure
Bazel
Datadog
Junior and Mid level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Oakland, CA

Fivetran

Data integration solutions

Open for applications

Fivetran

Data integration solutions

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataAnalytics

Open for applications

$133.9-160.7k

+ RSU stock grants

AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP
Java
Terraform
Splunk
Jenkins
Azure
Bazel
Datadog
Junior and Mid level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Oakland, CA

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataAnalytics

Company mission

Fivetran's mission is to solve the hardest part of building a data-driven company: centralising all your data in one place.

Role

Who you are

  • The ideal candidate is highly technical, detail-oriented, creative, motivated, and focused on achieving results
  • 2+ 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
  • Strong knowledge of and experience with OOP, preferably Java
  • Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization methodologies like Docker, K8s
  • Experience working with RDBMS or NoSQL databases
  • Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like CircleCI/Jenkins
  • Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic, Splunk, DataDog is a plus
  • Knowledge of Data Engineering is a plus

Desirable

  • Performance Engineering background - experience analyzing, troubleshooting and automating performance workloads on large scale systems

What the job involves

  • We’re looking for a talented Software Engineer with a passion for building enterprise grade software to join the Performance Engineering team in the Platform Group
  • 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
  • As a Software Engineer in our Performance Engineering Team, your primary focus will be to ensure that our product base meets or exceeds performance standards driving the performance of the entire product base
  • This involves designing and executing performance tests, analyzing data to identify performance issues, and resolving these issues
  • Additionally you will monitor the system performance over time, identify trends and recommend improvements
  • You will collaborate with fellow Staff and Senior engineers on ideas, designs, and code reviews
  • Develop and Debug code to identify and fix performance issues
  • Analyze production workloads and system performance metrics to identify performance bottlenecks in our system
  • Design, develop and maintain performance benchmarks
  • 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

After a few slower years since graduating from Y Combinator in 2013, Fivetran has skyrocketed, consistently raising large sums of funding, including an Andreessen Horowitz-backed $565m Series D round in 2021.

Customers are mostly data analysts at companies with inefficient database schema, who suffer from a high risk of project failures. Fivetran offers rapid integration of complex data services into cloud warehouses, tagging onto the trend towards cloud-based data systems.

By developing and continuously improving cloud applications that adapt to changing APIs and data schemas, Fivetran is attracting customers who seek long-term data viability. Fivetran also benefits from being easy to set up and integrate into a client's existing software.

After acquiring HVR, a data integration competitor, and Teleport Data, Fivetran continues to add functionality and customers via acquisition. A round of funding in 2023 paved the way for expansion into European and Asian markets.

Freddie headshot

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-2% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Sep 2021

$565m

SERIES D

Jun 2020

$100m

SERIES C

Total funding: $727.6m

Company benefits

  • 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance. Benefits begin on your first day!
  • Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time, holidays, parental leave, and volunteer days off
  • 401k match program
  • Eligible donation match program
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Work-from-home equipment reimbursement for your home office setup!
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team building activities
  • Commuter benefits to help with transit and parking costs
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Referral Bonuses
  • Stock equity -- every employee is granted stock options when they walk in the door
  • Annual Camp Fivetran trip that brings together every employee from around the world

Company values

  • Preserve your integrity, even when it's hard
  • Take the initiative
  • Trust each other
  • Nurture diversity, equality and inclusiveness
  • Lead, don't follow
  • One team, one dream

Company HQ

Downtown, Oakland, CA

Leadership

PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh

Studied Business Administration (focusing on design strategy) at California College of the Arts to Masters level

Salary benchmarks

We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.

Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.

Share this job

View 40 more jobs at Fivetran