# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Fivetran](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fivetran)
**Location:** Oakland, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $175k – $210k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Java, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Postgres, Distributed Systems, Buildkite
**Posted:** 2026-06-22

> Senior Software Engineer building scalable distributed data pipelines and enterprise features. Focus on performance engineering, data security, and cluster orchestration using Java, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes.

## Job Description

## Technologies You’ll Use
- Java
- SQL
- Bazel, BuildKite, Docker, Kubernetes, Github
- AWS, GCP, Azure
- Postgres database
- AI Tools

## 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
- Understand and fix challenges related to performance and scalability
- Participate periodically in on-call rotation
- Participate in the hiring process
- Mentor Junior developers
- 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
- 5+ 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
- Experience working with distributed systems
- 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
- Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization methodologies like Docker, K8s
- Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like Buildkite
- Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic/Grafana is a plus
- Knowledge of AI tools and usage is a plus

## Bonus Skills
- Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms

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