Software Engineer, Fivetran
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Automated data movement platform
Job no longer available
Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ RSUs, which may vary on country and worker type
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make access to data s simple and reliable as electricity.
Role
Who you are
- You don’t need to be a subject matter expert before you join us (you will become one within this role!), but you will need to have experience working carefully with a high impact software team — especially in environments where the best option may not be obvious, your decisions have cascading implications, and where you sometimes need to measure three times before you cut once
- A successful candidate will be humble enough to collect diverse input and build consensus, will be experienced and confident enough to be decisive when it’s needed, and will be practical enough to build and iterate on the system while it’s in production
- We are also looking for a high level of expertise and productivity with modern software development environments (we use Java)
- Typically, 3-5 years of software development experience in fast paced environments
- Demonstrated passion to learn how large-scale software engineering projects work
- Has developed an ability to write, test, and deploy well-structured and performant code
- Experience developing data-processing systems, preferably for an external-facing product
- Strong technical communication skills (written and verbal) in English
- Proficient level programming in an object oriented / systems language such as Java, Python, C# etc
- Experienced with end-to-end systems profiling, performance, and optimization
- Experienced working in a cloud environment architecture utilizing AWS, GCP, Postgres, Kubernetes, Docker, or similar technologies
- Strong ownership and proactiveness
Desirable
- Has reverse engineering experience of database logs
- Experience using Postgres databases
- Developed any ETL/ELT pipelines
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Software Engineer for our Postgres connector team to drive improved performance, reliability, and analytical power for our platform to delight our customers in how they move and leverage their data
- This team is tasked with evolving a high performance extract-load-transform data integration system that enables our connector teams to ship the Fivetran ELT product using powerful abstractions
- The role will challenge you to solve problems in the domains of performance engineering, data integrity, and cluster orchestration
- Be a horizontally-scaling engineer (we grow together as a team)
- Design and implement features and performance improvements in Fivetran's business critical database connector to create highly scalable distributed data pipelines on the cloud
- Care and feel ownership of our product platform, and leverage your skills towards improving it
- Advocate for core values, business impact, better engineering, and simple and direct solutions
- Collaborate across engineering on cross-functional projects creating innovative solutions
- Work across the project lifecycle: requirements, design, prototype, implementation, review, release, monitoring
- Review and approve technical design documents and pull requests
- Improve and enhance engineering systems documentation and development processes
- Contribute to hiring by participating in the interview process
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.
Freddie
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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