Senior Software Engineer 25 days ago

Fivetran; Philippines; Hybrid; PHP 2,609,000 - 4,239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

Generous PTO and parental leave

RSU stock grants

Professional development

Job summary

Fivetran is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our data pipeline service to build and maintain data connectors and pipelines that move data to data warehouses. You will contribute to code, review architecture, and mentor junior engineers in a hybrid Bangalore-based team.

The role emphasizes reliable distributed systems, cloud technologies, and collaboration across Cloud APIs, SQL/NoSQL, and Kubernetes environments. Two days in-office weekly are expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Experience in reliable distributed systems with high-volume data.
• Expertise in Java, AWS, cloud-based APIs, databases, and software design.
• Strong communication and technical leadership skills.
• Ability to identify design flaws and propose improvements.
• Proficiency with conversational AI tools to support SDLC artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Work on data pipelines moving data to data warehouses.
• Contribute to code, review code, and design architecture for owned services.
• Mentor junior colleagues and ensure technical excellence across the team.

Skills

5+ years experience

Distributed systems

Java

AWS

Cloud APIs

Algorithms & data structures

Software design

Leadership

AI tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Buildkite

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

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 Us

Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on.

Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.

As we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer for our data pipeline service to build and work on data pipelines that moves data from various sources to data warehouses. The work is very diverse – all the way from patching software to building new connectors operating on our global Kubernetes compute cluster. You will be responsible for ensuring the technical excellence for your team and owned services, by contributing to the code, reviewing code, contributing to architectural design and mentoring your junior colleagues.

This is a full-time position based out of our Bangalore 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, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP,Azure, Buildkite

What You’ll Do

• You’ll be working with Cloud APIs, SQL, and NoSQL databases, events, etc.
• You’ll be working on the core data pipeline that moves terabytes of data from all our customers to their data warehouses
• You will process the data into clean, incremental, automated updates

Skills We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience.
• Strong technical and problem-solving skills, with recent hands-on software development experience
• Experience in reliable distributed systems, with an emphasis on high-volume data management within enterprise and/or web-scale products and platforms that operate under strict SLAs
• Broad technical knowledge which encompasses Software development and automation
• Experience with use of wide array of algorithms and data structures
• Expertise in working with Java, AWS, Cloud-based APIs, databases, software design and programming best practices
• Entrepreneurial mindset, excellent communication, and technical leadership skills
• Create and contribute to an environment that is geared to innovation, high productivity, high quality and customer Service
• Can identify design flaws in existing systems and come up with improvements
• Ability to use conversational AI systems (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) to support researching, authoring, reviewing and synthesising various SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, postmortems, test plans and proposals

Bonus Skills

• Experience in ETL/ELT pipelines
• Experience with performance engineering

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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

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.

We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this form. We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.