Staff Software Engineer - PostgreSQL Databases at Fivetran

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About the Role

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

We’re looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer with a passion for building enterprise-grade software to join the PostgreSQL database connector team. You will be focusing on developing world-class enterprise capabilities and features in support of our largest and most sophisticated customers. The work we do is both highly visible and critically important to the long term growth and success of Fivetran.

Fivetran is the epitome of data-driven-development — our engineering team is focused on building a world class product that:

Facilitates Data Analytics — join our mission to reliably deliver best-in class schemas, and clean data, designed to be intuitively useful to analysts.
Contributes to our Community — help develop tools like Data Lakes, SQL-based Transformations, and schema explorers to empower analysts to choose the best tools, and to make those tools more powerful.
Is Absolutely Dependable — work to make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure.

We emphasize using no-nonsense code, and take great pride in the simplicity and effectiveness of the systems we build. Our back-end is built on Java, C, Postgres, and Kubernetes, and our front-end is built on React and Typescript.

This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of our Oakland, CA office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.

Technologies You’ll Use

Java, PostgreSQL, GCP, SQL, BigQuery, Bazel, BuildKite

What You’ll Do

Lead the design, development, and debugging of our intuitive best-in-class enterprise capabilities enabling Fivetran’s largest customers.
Manage and lead projects simultaneously, coordinating with different stakeholders to ensure timely and quality delivery in an iterative development environment.
Maintain and improve existing enterprise features; call for improvements in Fivetran's codebase and infrastructure.
Demonstrably maintain high standards for code quality, performance, scalability, and reliability by conducting thorough testing and reviews.
Collaborate across engineering on cross-functional projects creating innovative solutions.
Make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure.
Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for the adoption of new tools and methodologies to improve the development process.
Work closely with the Customer Success and Go-To-Market (GTM) teams to assist in challenging customer situations. Provide technical expertise and solutions to ensure customer satisfaction and support Fivetran's growth objectives.
Participate periodically in on-call rotation.

Skills We’re Looking For

10+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems.
Strong knowledge of and experience with OOP, preferably Java.
Strong knowledge in database and query performance tuning.
Understand and know how/when to leverage AI agent to improve engineering efficiency
Understands and can explain how to build high performance systems and processes.
Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complicated projects.
Able to define project requirements and be proficient at designing the software and infrastructure to satisfy them.
Experience understanding customer requirements and/or problems and breaking them down into engineering tasks.
Be able to efficiently solve problems that unlock valuable use cases for our largest customers.
Be able to dive into previously written code and both suggest and effect improvements.
Enjoy mentoring and growing junior developers.
Strong written and verbal English skills to support complex analysis.

Bonus Skills

Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms.
Expertise in Postgres database internal
Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic, Grafana

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The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The compensation range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your location during the hiring process.

Oakland Pay Range

$186,698.21—$233,372.76 USD

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.

*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information

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We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.

Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.

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