3 months ago
Remote, Germany or Berlin, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with product teams to understand requirements and design customer-facing capabilities
- Design, develop, implement, and operate highly reliable large-scale data lake systems
- Contribute to open-source projects including DuckDB and Polaris
- Analyze and resolve fault-tolerance, high availability, performance, and scale challenges
- Ensure operational excellence and meet customer commitments for security, reliability, availability, and performance
- Set technical direction and influence cross-functional teams
Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on or research experience with high-performance relational data management systems
- Deep understanding of infrastructure and software optimization and performance engineering
- Proven track record of leading and delivering large, complex projects
- Strong development skills in Java and C++
- Solid experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Knowledge of columnar storage formats
- An MS or PhD in Computer Science focused on database management or storage engines is strongly preferred
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance, subject to country and worker type
- Generous paid time off, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, holidays, 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
- Mental health support platform with therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness resources
- Full-time remote position based out of Germany
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Fivetran
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.