Staff Software Engineer - PostgreSQL Databases

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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