Fivetran

Staff Software Engineer

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7 days ago
Novi Sad, SerbiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own technical direction, architecture, design documentation, and staged technical plans for Cloud Signals systems.
  • Lead the Fivetran and dbt billing integration, including data models, usage pipelines, reconciliation, and migration strategy.
  • Evolve the Vortex high-volume event platform for scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and observable warehouse delivery.
  • Grow the shared Notification System for transactional and product notifications across email, in-app, and Slack channels.
  • Partner with Product, Finance, RevOps, Data, and engineering teams on specifications, prototypes, roadmap, staffing, and build-versus-buy decisions.
  • Define SLOs, improve alerting and runbooks, participate in on-call, and lead incident response and blameless postmortems.
  • Mentor engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and promote effective use of AI tools in software development.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating production software with technical leadership on large, cross-team projects.
  • Deep experience designing distributed systems and backend services with emphasis on correctness, idempotency, and data integrity.
  • Hands-on experience with high-volume event-driven architectures and streaming or messaging systems such as Kafka.
  • Strong knowledge of relational databases, data modeling, and cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake.
  • Experience designing, building, and consuming APIs and integrating third-party systems.
  • Production experience with a major cloud provider, preferably AWS, plus Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
  • Experience with observability, SLOs, on-call, incident management, and migration of systems without downtime.
  • Ability to identify design flaws and lead incremental improvements while continuing to ship.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, including design documentation and explaining technical trade-offs to non-technical partners.
  • Fluency with AI coding assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI for software development and SDLC artifacts.
  • Bonus experience with billing or metering platforms such as Metronome or Stripe, telemetry or analytics pipelines such as Snowplow or Iceberg, notification platforms, ETL/ELT, dbt, modern data stack tools, or post-merger platform consolidation.

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance, subject to country and worker type.
  • Paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
  • RSU stock grants.
  • Professional development and training opportunities.
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, and team-building activities.
  • Monthly cell phone stipend.
  • Access to a mental health support platform offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness resources.
  • Full-time remote work arrangement.
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About Fivetran

1,001-5,000 employees

Fivetran builds a managed data integration platform that extracts data from hundreds of SaaS apps and databases and loads it into cloud data warehouses for analytics and AI teams. Sold as a subscription SaaS service, it provides prebuilt connectors, automated schema management, and ELT/replication to destinations like Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and Redshift. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Oakland, it serves customers such as Autodesk, Condé Nast, JetBlue, and Morgan Stanley.

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