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Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. We’re seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to contribute to the technical architecture, design, operation and development of Fivetran’s Managed Data Lake product offering. As part of a senior engineering team, you’ll partner with product and engineering teams to build scalable, high-performance systems, advance open-source technologies, and set technical standards that raise the bar across the organization.

Job Responsibility:

  • Partner closely with product teams to understand requirements and design cutting-edge new capabilities that go directly into customer’s hands
  • Design, develop, implement, and operate highly reliable large-scale data lake systems in cooperation with a dedicated data lake engineering team and our SRE teams
  • Drive significant performance, latency, and availability improvements for our data lake services
  • Ensure operational excellence of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding security, reliability, availability, and performance
  • Investigate and resolve fault-tolerance and high availability issues as well as performance and scale challenges both inside and across service boundaries
  • Contribute to open-source projects such as DuckDB and Apache Polaris
  • Embrace Fivetran innovations with open-source standards and toolsets
  • Set technical directions and influence cross-functional teams

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of hands-on or research experience maintaining and operating high-performance containerized applications that span multiple services
  • Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, deployment, service orchestration, software optimizations and performance engineering of highly distributed services
  • Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complicated projects
  • Strong development skills in Java
  • Experience running and debugging Kubernetes containerized services
  • Solid experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Growth mindset and excitement about breaking the status quo by seeking innovative solutions
  • Excellent team player who is consistent in making everyone around you better

Nice to have:

  • Hands-on or research experience with high-performance relational data management systems
  • Demonstrated knowledge of columnar storage formats
  • Strongly prefer an MS or PhD in Computer Science
What we offer:
  • 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

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Job Posted:
February 16, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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