Staff Software Engineer, Fivetran
CA$167.5-209.4k
+ RSU stock grants for eligible roles
2 days a week in office
Automated data movement platform
Be an early applicant
Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$167.5-209.4k
+ RSU stock grants for eligible roles
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make access to data s simple and reliable as electricity.
Role
Who you are
- This role is a strong fit for engineers who enjoy working close to database internals, change data capture, replication correctness, and large-scale distributed systems
- Significant hands-on software engineering experience building backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems
- Strong experience with Java and/or C/C++ in production systems
- Deep understanding of database internals, transaction semantics, query behavior, and data consistency
- Experience building or maintaining data replication, CDC, ETL/ELT, migration, or connector systems
- Experience investigating low-level or poorly documented system behavior, such as binary logs, protocols, storage formats, or APIs
- Strong system design skills, especially for reliable distributed systems operating under strict correctness and availability requirements
- Ability to lead technical direction and influence architecture across teams
- Strong communication skills and a track record of mentoring engineers
Desirable
- Experience with Oracle internals, redo/archive logs, or log-based replication
- Experience with database migration or replication products
- Experience in systems-level engineering, including kernel, drivers, networking, or protocol analysis
- Experience working on developer infrastructure or highly reliable data platforms
What the job involves
- Fivetran is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Database Connector team. This team builds and operates the core replication technology that powers reliable, scalable data movement for enterprise customers
- You will lead the design and evolution of connector capabilities, investigate complex replication behaviors, and help shape the technical direction of systems that support mission-critical workloads, including large Oracle deployments
- Design, build, and improve database connectors with a focus on correctness, performance, scalability, and operability
- Investigate complex replication and CDC issues in production systems used by enterprise customers
- Analyze low-level database behavior, logs, and transaction flows to support new features and improve reliability
- Develop support for new database capabilities, especially in Oracle and other enterprise database platforms
- Drive software design and technical roadmap decisions for the team
- Improve observability, testing, and operational excellence across connector systems
- Partner with engineers across teams to raise architecture quality and reliability across the broader platform
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership through design reviews, implementation guidance, and hands-on development
- Technologies You’ll Use:
- Java, C/C++, SQL
- Relational databases and database internals
- Docker, Bazel, Buildkite
- GCP, AWS, Azure
- Linux, Unix, Windows, git
- This role represents new headcount added to the team to support continued growth and expansion of capabilities
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.
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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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