# Software Engineer III

**Company:** [Fivetran](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fivetran)
**Location:** Oakland, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $175k – $210k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Java, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, SQL, BigQuery, Distributed Systems, buildkite, Bazel
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> 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.

## 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
- 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

## Similar roles

- [Software Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/0bea12e5-c873-4a29-80d6-bc3252b217cc) - Auctor - New York, NY - $175k – $290k/yr
- [Software Engineer, Product](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/64afa207-e1c9-4350-8636-52a905248b60) - Numeric - New York, NY - $175k – $250k/yr
- [Product Engineering Team](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/4f861c1b-6f5f-45eb-9885-1d7ccbce0d00) - Sprinter Health - San Francisco, CA - $175k – $225k/yr
- [Software Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/6517f905-bec9-4d88-811e-b19faa8c16dd) - Nooks - San Francisco, CA - $175k – $250k/yr
- [Software Engineer, Internal Tools](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/e93591c9-e931-4724-b78b-030cad3746c6) - Sesame - San Francisco, CA - $175k – $280k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/fe079d79-f5ec-4bd4-9008-c7af13dbcb5c
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/fe079d79-f5ec-4bd4-9008-c7af13dbcb5c