# Software Engineer

**Company:** [Fivetran](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fivetran)
**Location:** Oakland, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $141k – $169k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Java, C++, C#, Buildkite, New Relic, Grafana, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, ETL, ELT
**Posted:** 2026-06-25

> Software Engineer building scalable distributed data pipelines and enterprise features for Fivetran's ELT platform. Requires 3+ years experience, strong OOP skills, and a CS or related degree.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Design and implement features and performance improvements to create highly scalable distributed data pipelines on the cloud.
- Develop, maintain, and test code.
- Conduct design and code reviews.
- Collaborate with peers, product managers, customer support, and other stakeholders to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability.
- Participate periodically in on-call rotation.
- Make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure.

## Skills We’re Looking For
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Software Engineering or Computer Science.
- 3+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems.
- Software engineering foundation - experience designing and developing reusable libraries and experimentation platforms for backend and frontend from scratch leveraging industry best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to write well-structured and performant code.
- Ability to lead software and infrastructure design to satisfy project requirements.
- Experience in code reviews, design, troubleshooting and testing.
- Experience programming in an object oriented / systems language such as Java, C++, C# etc.
- Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like Buildkite.
- Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic/Grafana is a plus.
- Knowledge of Data Engineering is a plus.
- Understand how to use AI code assist and coding agents to automatically generate code for features, bugs, testing, and investigation.
- Ability to use conversational AI systems (like Claude, ChatGPT, and internal chatbots) to support researching, authoring, reviewing, and synthesizing various SDLC artifacts.

## Bonus Skills
- Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization methodologies like Docker, K8s.
- Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms.

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