Staff Software Engineer, Fivetran
ETL Platform
$186.7-233.4k
Automated data movement platform
Open for applications
Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$186.7-233.4k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make access to data s simple and reliable as electricity.
Role
Who you are
- Ownership - Experience being on-call, driving system quality higher, managing costs and constantly recognizing areas to simplify while always improving composability
- Autonomous and Self-Motivated - thrives in a high-trust environment, driving projects forward and making independent decisions with confidence
- Adaptable and Resilient - comfortably navigates ambiguity and views challenges as opportunities for growth
- Driven and Persistent - maintains a strong focus on goals, confidently overcoming obstacles and eagerly seeking innovative solutions to exceed expectations
What the job involves
- Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies
- We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our ETL Platform team
- We own the core platform that backs Census’ sync engine. We are responsible for keeping our customer data flowing smoothly - on time, every time. We design and implement projects like our recent Sync Tracking overhaul - enabling us to capture, store, and process huge datasets, giving customers complete visibility into what data is flowing through our pipes; providing the capability to verify that every record is getting where it needs to go. We manage a constantly scaling and resizing fleet of machines to handle the dynamic needs of our customers, so one could call us the shadow infrastructure team as well
- This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of either our New York or Oakland offices
- Technologies You'll Use:
- Expertise in at least one interpreted language such as Python, Ruby on Rails, etc
- Expertise in at least one compiled language such as C++, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Java, etc
- Solid understanding of relational databases (experience with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake) is a bonus)
- Proven experience in system integration, including API consumption and development (experience with infrastructure management is a bonus)
- Familiarity with leading cloud providers, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Experience being on-call
- What You’ll Do:
- Make valuable contributions to the deepest recesses of our tech stack – including writing typesafe Ruby and Rails with Sorbet, building performant Kotlin microservices, managing highly available Spark clusters, working on deterministic Temporal workflows, and Terraforming all the things in AWS
- Think in Parquet, live in cloud storage, and have data flowing through your veins
- Operate in hostile territory on all sides–building and managing a data diffing ETL engine that operates across every type of data warehouse and SQL dialect imaginable on data you don’t own or control, and send it to countless permutations of destinations that could respond any number of unpredictable ways
- Be a reliable and steadfast operator, participating in the team on-call rotation to help diagnose, triage and fix performance bottlenecks and gnarly edge-cases our customers discover. You’ll leave the campsite cleaner than you found it
- Work closely with our product team to help design and develop new features to improve data pipeline observability and debuggability, putting you on a first name basis with the data teams of many comp
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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