Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Fivetran
$166.6-199.9k
2 days a week in office (Oakland, CA)
Automated data movement platform
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Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$166.6-199.9k
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
- 5+ years of experience working with SaaS products at scale
- Working experience of Kubernetes administration
- Knowledge of Cloud Platforms and related tooling: AWS, GCP, Terraform, configuration management
- Experience in Python/Shell scripting. Bonus if you have Java also
- Experience with Linux operating systems internals and administration
- Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL
What the job involves
- Fivetran is looking for a high-performance engineer to be a part of a team of Site Reliability Engineers. You will be working closely with engineering teams, product managers, as well as support and sales engineers to build the future of the Fivetran Data Platform Reliability
- As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, you will contribute to overall performance and reliability of Fivetran’s infrastructure by monitoring, alerting and initial incident response
- You will support the deployment pipeline by working alongside senior SREs. You will gain valuable experience in effective incident response and issue avoidance, becoming a key player in Fivetran’s growing SRE team.
- Responsible for monitoring the availability, capacity, and throughput of Fivetran's production infrastructure to identify and address potential issues
- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate reliability best practices into the product roadmap
- Support the prioritization and resolution of critical bugs identified by support or sales
- Contribute to maintaining 100% availability of production infrastructure by collaborating with engineering to implement automation for scalable deployments
- Proactively monitor infrastructure vulnerabilities and collaborate with the security team to address them in a timely manner
- By month 1
- Ramp up with Fivetran technology stack and architecture
- Develop general awareness of all areas of Fivetran's codebase and infrastructure
- Start monitoring the Fivetran platform
- Start contributing to incident post-mortems
- By month 2
- Deliver the task that is being assigned
- By month 6
- Deliver the project tasks that is being assigned
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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