Principal Software Engineer, Fivetran
Data Lakes
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Data integration solutions
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Data integration solutions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ RSU Stock grants
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
- 6+ years of hands-on or research experience with high-performance relational data management systems
- 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
- 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
Desirable
- 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 contribute to the technical architecture, design and development of Fivetran’s Managed Data Lake product offering
- As part of a senior engineering team, you’ll partner with product and engineering teams to build scalable, high-performance systems, advance open-source technologies, and set technical standards that raise the bar across the organization
- Technologies You’ll Use:
- Java, C++, Postgres, Temporal, gRPC
- AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Grafana
- Iceberg, Polaris, Delta Lake, Parquet, DuckDB
- You'll 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 and Polaris
- 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
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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2021
$565m
SERIES D
Jun 2020
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $727.6m
Company benefits
- Dental, and Health Insurance Benefits
- Equity in early-stage, Series D ScaleUp
- Life Insurance and Income protection and Retirement savings plan
- A healthy work culture with excellent opportunities for professional and personal development
- Working from home equipment stipend
- Family Leave Program
- Company happy hours and virtual Team building events
- Social/ Wellness/ Volunteer activities
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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