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FivetranFivetranOakland, CA

Software Engineer III

Software Engineer III building highly scalable distributed data pipelines on the cloud for reliable, secure data movement at Fivetran. Requires 5+ years software engineering experience, strong distributed systems and cloud skills, and experience with Java or similar languages.

175k – 210k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

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

  • 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 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

Bonus Skills

  • Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic/Grafana is a plus
  • Knowledge of AI tools and usage is a plus

Technologies You’ll Use

  • Java 17, JUnit5
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • AWS, GCP, Azure
  • SQL, BigQuery
  • Bazel, BuildKite

Perks and Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance
  • Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
  • RSU stock grants
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents

Skills

JavaKubernetesDockerAWSGCPAzureSQLBigQueryDistributed SystemsbuildkiteBazel

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