Staff Software Engineer, Fivetran
$186.7-233.4k
2 days a week in office (Oakland, CA)
Automated data movement platform
Open for applications
Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$186.7-233.4k
2 days a week in office (Oakland, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make access to data s simple and reliable as electricity.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise in at least one interpreted language such as Python, Ruby on Rails, etc
- Hands-on experience with 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
- Can build things end-to-end. Our engineers build, deploy and maintain their code
- Is adept with data, backend systems, APIs, and UI components
- Is customer-focused, with an eye for building delightful product experiences and developer experiences
- Approaches new problems with a scrappy optimism, with a bias towards action
- Thrives in ambiguous environments where you get to work directly with customers and make decisions that build trust and have a huge impact on the business
- Present and available online for synchronous and asynchronous collaboration with a team distributed across North America
- Able to work in-person in our Oakland office 2 days per week
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Reverse ETL product engineering team
- Formerly Census, we were acquired in May 2025 to augment Fivetran’s warehouse-first data movement product story
- Now we’re integrating our entire product directly into the Fivetran dashboard, bringing best-in-class data activation to every Fivetran customer
- As a staff software engineer in Reverse ETL, you’ll be on the front lines of integrating data activation capabilities into the Fivetran product along every dimension – UI, authentication, billing, data model, and more
- You’ll be a senior member of a distributed, collaborative, agile team of engineers of varying experience levels and diverse backgrounds
- Make contributions to all parts of our tech stack, which comprises Ruby on Rails, Typescript, Vue, and AWS
- Be comfortable “filling in the gaps” in product / design specs. The prospect of being able to prototype to test ideas out before committing to building is exciting to you
- Work closely with our product team, leaders, and customers to help design and develop features that make Fivetran the one-stop shop for data activation
- Mentor early-career engineers, perform thoughtful and constructive code reviews, advise on best practices, provide project-level leadership, operate across teams, departments, and time zones
- Lead major projects, from driving research spikes, to writing and socializing design documents, to planning the implementation and rollout
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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