Senior Staff Software Engineer at Fivetran

Company: Fivetran
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Employment type: full-time
Posted: 2026-09-02

<div class="content-intro">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.</div>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. 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 <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Java, JUnit</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Docker and Kubernetes</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">AWS, GCP</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Terraform, WireMock, RestAssured</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Bazel, BuildKite</li> </ul> What You’ll Do <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Develop and Debug code to identify and fix performance issues</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Analyze production workloads and system performance metrics to identify performance bottlenecks in our system</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Build proof of concepts and translate successful ones into solutions to maximize Fivetran product’s performance and efficiency</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Build and maintain a platform that focuses on improving the performance, resilience and quality of Fivetran products</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Impact Fivetran business across product verticals through the work you do</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Develop deep expertise in Fivetran's Product, Infrastructure, and Platform</li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;">Communicate, coordinate, and align strategy with the engineering team members; make recommendations to improve reliability, performance, best practices, and pro

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