10 hours ago
Base Salary
$164k - $197k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement features and performance improvements for the scheduler, execution harness, results processing, and related orchestration services.
- Develop, test, optimize, and maintain high-quality backend code and reusable components.
- Write, review, and explain technical designs and architectural trade-offs.
- Review pull requests, improve test coverage, and reduce technical debt through refactoring.
- Troubleshoot production issues and complete incident post-mortems and mitigation plans.
- Plan and execute feature-level work, including task breakdown, sprint planning, and project plans.
- Collaborate with product managers, QE, customer support, and engineering peers to deliver scalable, reliable products.
- Participate periodically in the on-call rotation and use AI tools to accelerate development and author or review SDLC artifacts.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software industry experience designing and building backend services and reusable components.
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud computing concepts.
- Ability to write structured, performant, well-tested code and independently lead feature-level software and design work.
- Experience identifying design flaws, proposing improvements, conducting code reviews, troubleshooting, and testing.
- Proficiency in a modern backend or systems language such as Python, Java, C++, or C#.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with continuous integration tooling such as BuildKite.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog or Grafana is a plus.
- Fluency with AI code assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI for software development and SDLC artifacts.
- Bonus: experience with ETL or ELT, cloud-based data platforms, metadata, catalog, lineage, discovery or search systems, GraphQL APIs, high-throughput multi-tenant data services, or the dbt ecosystem.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance, subject to country and worker-type variation.
- 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, team-building activities, and a monthly cell phone stipend.
- Mental health support platform with therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness resources for employees and covered dependents.
- Hybrid work arrangement is indicated by the #LIHYBRID designation.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureBuildkiteC#C++DatadogdbtDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGraphQLJavaKubernetesPostgreSQLPythonRustSnowflake
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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.