C Programmer - Senior Software Engineer

Fivetran; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

RSU stock grants

Professional development

Monthly cell phone stipend

Volunteer days off

Paid time off

Job summary

Fivetran in Novi Sad, Serbia, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Database Group to strengthen data pipelines and the core product infrastructure. You will design and implement features for relational databases, review designs, and mentor teammates.

Join a team that values practical engineering, consensus-building, and production-ready solutions while delivering scalable data movement across clouds.

Qualifications

• Proficient in C and C++, with strong systems programming background.
• Experience with relational databases, SQL and DBMS interfaces.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, containers, and data replication.

Responsibilities

• Write and test code to build reliable data pipelines.
• Review technical designs and pull requests for quality.
• Mentor teammates and help solve complex production issues.
• Own the product platform and drive code quality improvements.
• Collaborate across a small core team and broader stakeholders.
• Work through requirements, design, prototype, implementation, release and monitoring.

Skills

C

C++

Relational DBs

SQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

APIs

Data replication

Tools

ODBC

OCI

AWS CloudFormation

Job description

Novi Sad, South Baka, Serbia, EMEA
Position Title: C Programmer - Senior Software Engineer

About Us

From Fivetran 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. 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

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

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our database team and perform a healthy mix of design and implementation tasks to advance the technical foundation behind the Fivetran product offering.

As an engineer in the Database Group, focusing on capturing data from relational databases, you will contribute to the entire software development lifecycle for the capabilities critical to making our largest enterprise customers successful. You will collaborate with engineers across the engineering organisation as we identify opportunities for product improvements. You will be responsible for ensuring the technical excellence of your team and own services by reviewing code and contributing to architectural designs.

A successful candidate will be humble enough to collect diverse input and build consensus, experienced and confident enough to be decisive when needed, and practical enough to build and iterate on the system while it's in production.

This is a full-time position based out of our Novi Sad office.

Technologies You’ll Use

Technologies You’ll Use: C, IBM DB2 (LUW, iSeries or z/OS), AWS.

What You’ll Do

• Write and test code.
• Create technical specifications.
• Review and approve technical design documents and pull requests.
• Mentor other members of the team and assist with their challenges.
• Care and take ownership of our product platform, and leverage your skills towards improving code quality by identifying issues, testing, and maintaining the code.
• Collaborate with a small but mighty core team and a broader set of stakeholders.
• Work across the project lifecycle: requirements, design, prototype, implementation, review, release, and monitoring.

Skills Were Looking For

• Experience in both C and C++
• Experience in Relational Databases, SQL language, and DBMS call-level interfaces (e.g. ODBC or Oracle OCI).
• Experience with data replication, ETL/ELT tools, cloud and software-defined infrastructure tools (AWS Cloud Formation, Kubernetes, Docker), API technologies and analytics is a plus.
• You know how to design and code systems and software that is effective, intuitive, easy to operate, and elegantly simple.
• You know complex structures, object orientation, exceptions, and memory management techniques.
• You are adaptable and have the willingness to learn new skills while being flexible to work within new environments.

Bonus Skills

• Knowledge of IBM DB2 (LUW, iSeries or z/OS) is a strong plus.
• A strong plus is knowledge of DBMS internals, such as the transaction logging system. Diving into the nitty-gritty innards of database systems does not scare you.

Perks and Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays (including a year end Global Week of Rest), 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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Were honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, were 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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