Senior Staff Software Engineer, Fivetran

• 10+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling high-throughput, low-latency distributed backend systems
• Deep expertise in Java performance engineering, including profiling, tuning, and garbage collection optimization
• Familiarity with performance testing frameworks, load simulation, and continuous benchmarking
• Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and systems design
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Demonstrated experience influencing technical direction and engineering culture across teams

Desirable

• Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies
• We are looking for a brilliant and collaborative individual to join our Performance Engineering Team in the Platform Group as a Senior Staff Software Engineer
• 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
• Your primary responsibility will be to ensure that our product base meets or exceeds performance standards, driving the overall performance of our products
• This entails proposing and designing performance-enhancing features and improvements
• You will also design and execute performance tests, analyze data to identify performance issues, and resolve these issues proactively
• Additionally, you will monitor system performance over time, identify trends, and recommend improvements
• Collaboratively with engineers from other teams, you will engage in discussions, debates, and code reviews to refine ideas, designs, and code
• A successful candidate will possess a humble learning attitude, embracing existing realities and approaching challenges from a fundamental perspective
• They will contribute fresh perspectives, enabling the team to make optimal design decisions
• This candidate will be actively involved in implementation tasks, continuously refining decision-making factors to recalibrate realities and achieve strategic goals
• This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland office
• Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team
• Technologies You’ll Use:
• Java (JVM, JIT, GC tuning, thread management), JUnit
• Docker and Kubernetes
• AWS, GCP
• Terraform, WireMock, RestAssured
• Bazel, BuildKite
• Develop and Debug code to identify and fix performance issues
• Analyze production workloads and system performance metrics to identify performance bottlenecks in our system
• 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