Principal Software Engineer, Fivetran
Data Lakes
Automated data movement platform
Job no longer available
Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make access to data s simple and reliable as electricity.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of hands-on or research experience with large-scale data-intensive distributed systems, especially in query engines, object storage, data warehouses, data lakes, data analytics, SQL/NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, and data platform infrastructure
- Deep understanding of infrastructure & software optimizations and performance engineering to drive significant performance, latency, and availability improvements
- Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complicated projects across organizations
- Strong development skills in Java and C++
- Solid experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Demonstrated knowledge of columnar storage formats
- Growth mindset and excitement about breaking the status quo by seeking innovative solutions
- Excellent team player who is consistent in making everyone around you better
- Strongly prefer an MS or PhD in Computer Science, ideally focusing on database management and/or storage engines
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical architecture, design, and development of Fivetran’s Data Lake product offering
- Our Data Lake architecture ensures our customers have queryable data without any transformations
- We strive to continuously improve our Data Lake solution for scalability, better performance, and ease of customer use
- Partner closely with product teams to understand requirements and design cutting-edge new capabilities that go directly into customer’s hands
- Design, develop, implement, and operate highly reliable large-scale data lake systems in cooperation with a dedicated data lake engineering team
- Contribute to open-source projects such as DuckDB
- Embrace Fivetran innovations with open-source standards and toolsets
- Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them
- Ensure operational excellence of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding security, reliability, availability, and performance
- Set technical directions and influence cross-functional teams
- Technologies You’ll Use: Java, C++, Postgres, Temporal, gRPC, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Newrelic, Iceberg, Delta Lake, Parquet, DuckDB
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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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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