Staff Software Engineer, Fivetran
$186.7-233.4k
2 days a week in office (Oakland, CA)
Data integration solutions
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Data integration solutions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$186.7-233.4k
2 days a week in office (Oakland, CA)
1001+ employees
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
- 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
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
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 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 HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
George Fraser
(CEO)PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh
Taylor Brown
(COO)Studied Business Administration (focusing on design strategy) at California College of the Arts to Masters level
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