Senior Software Engineer
About Us
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
We’re looking for a Software Engineer for SQL Server database connector team and supporting other databases teams to drive improved performance, reliability, and analytical power for our platform to delight our customers in how they use their data.
This team is tasked with evolving a high performance extract-load-transform data integration system that enables our connector teams to ship the Fivetran ELT product using powerful abstractions. The role will challenge you to solve problems in the domains of performance engineering, data security, and cluster orchestration. You don’t need to be a subject matter expert before you join us (you will become one within this role!), but you will need to have experience working carefully with a high impact software team — especially in environments where the best option may not be obvious, your decisions have cascading implications, and where you sometimes need to measure three times before you cut once.
A successful candidate will be humble enough to collect diverse input and build consensus, will be experienced and confident enough to be decisive when it’s needed, and will be practical enough to build and iterate on the system while it’s in production. We are also looking for a high level of expertise and productivity with modern software development environments (we use Java).
We're looking for people who can understand the key values that make our product great and implement those values in the many small decisions you make every day as one of our most senior engineers.
This is a full-time position based out of our Bangalore 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, SQL Server, SQL, Docker, AWS, GCP, BuildKite, DBeaver, Grafana
What You’ll Do
Be a horizontally-scaling engineer (we grow together as a team)
Design and implement features and performance improvements in the Fivetran core to create highly scalable distributed data pipelines on the cloud
Care and feel ownership of our product platform, and leverage your skills towards improving it
Advocate for core values, business impact, better engineering, and simple and direct solutions
Lead engineering-wide initiatives for a number of key technologies
Collaborate across engineering on cross-functional projects creating innovative solutions
Work across the project lifecycle: requirements, design, prototype, implementation, review, release, monitoring
Review and approve technical design documents and pull requests
Improve and enhance engineering systems documentation and development processes
Coach and mentor other software engineers
Contribute to hiring by participating in the interview process
Skills We’re Looking For
Typically, 5+ years of software development experience in fast paced environments
Demonstrated passion to learn how large-scale software engineering projects work
Lead and mentor junior team members
Has developed an ability to write, test, and deploy well-structured and performant code
Experience developing data-processing systems, preferably for an external-facing product
Strong technical communication skills (written and verbal) in English
Proficient level programming in an object oriented / systems language such as Java, Python, C# etc.
Experienced with end-to-end systems profiling, performance, and optimization
Experience troubleshooting problems with existing code and systems
Experienced working in a cloud environment architecture utilizing AWS, GCP, Postgres, Kubernetes, Docker, or similar technologies
Bonus Skills
Experience with SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, CosmosDB databases
Developed any ETL/ELT pipelines
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