Senior Staff Software Engineer

Fivetran, Inc.; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 232,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

Generous PTO and holidays

Professional development

Team events

Monthly cell phone stipend

Mental health resources

Job summary

Fivetran, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Performance Engineering Team in the Oakland office. You’ll ensure product performance meets standards and design performance-enhancing features.

You will analyze workloads, run tests, review code with peers, and collaborate across Dev, Product, and SRE to deliver scalable backend services. This hybrid role requires a hands-on leader with 10+ years of experience, strong Java and data systems skills, and a practical, results-driven

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Experience in architecting reliable distributed systems with high-volume data.
• Backend services and data systems expertise.
• Strong knowledge of Java and databases.

Responsibilities

• Develop and Debug code to identify and fix performance issues (≤140 chars).
• Analyze production workloads and system performance metrics to identify bottlenecks.
• Build proof-of-concepts and translate successful ones into scalable solutions.
• Maintain a platform focusing on improving performance, resilience and quality.
• Engage with engineers across teams to refine designs and code.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Performance engineering

Code reviews

SRE collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Terraform

WireMock

RestAssured

JUnit

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 the Role

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

We’re looking for a brilliant and collaborative individual to join our Performance Engineering Team as a Staff Software Engineer. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure that our product base meets or exceeds performance standards, driving the overall performance of our products. This entails proposing and designing performance-enhancing features and improvements. You will also design and execute performance tests, analyze data to identify performance issues, and resolve these issues proactively. Additionally, you will monitor system performance over time, identify trends, and recommend improvements. Collaboratively with engineers from other teams, you will engage in discussions, debates, and code reviews to refine ideas, designs, and code.

A successful candidate will possess a humble learning attitude, embracing existing realities and approaching challenges from a fundamental perspective. They will contribute fresh perspectives, enabling the team to make optimal design decisions. This candidate will be actively involved in implementation tasks, continuously refining decision-making factors to recalibrate realities and achieve strategic goals. The ideal candidate exhibits exceptional technical skills, meticulous attention to detail, creativity, motivation, and a results-oriented mindset.

This is a Hybrid position based out of our Oakland office.

Technologies You’ll Use

• Java, JUnit
• Docker and Kubernetes
• AWS, GCP
• Terraform, WireMock, RestAssured

What You’ll Do

• Develop and Debug code to identify and fix performance issues
• Analyze production workloads and system performance metrics to identify performance bottlenecks in our system
• Build proof of concepts and translate successful ones into solutions to maximize Fivetran product’s performance and efficiency
• Build and maintain a platform that focuses on improving the performance, resilience and quality of Fivetran products
• Impact Fivetran business across product verticals through the work you do
• Develop deep expertise in Fivetran's Product, Infrastructure, and Platform
• Communicate, coordinate, and align strategy with the engineering team members; make recommendations to improve reliability, performance, best practices, and processes
• Work with cross-functional teams (Developers, Product, SRE) across the organization
• Actively engage with fellow engineers in design and code reviews to ensure we deliver performant solutions that improves the product’s efficiency
• 10+ years of hands‑on experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems
• Experience in architecting reliable distributed systems, with an emphasis on high‑volume data management
• Experience and expertise in building backend services and data systems
• Experience with use of wide range of algorithms and data structures
• Strong knowledge and expertise in working with Java and databases
• Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic, Splunk, DataDog is a plus

Bonus Skills

• Performance Engineering background is a plus - experience analyzing, troubleshooting and automating performance workloads on large scale systems
• Hands‑on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP,Azure) and containerizationmethodologies like docker, K8s
• Experience with cloud warehouses, such as Snowflake, BigQuery, RedShift and Databricks
• Familiarity with system level programming (such as process and memory management and inter-process communication)

Oakland Pay Range

$232,338 — $290,422 USD

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
• 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

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.