Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform
fivetran
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, APAC
Development
Data
Job Score
90 pts
On-site model (+70)
Development (+10)
Data (+10)
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 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:
Fivetran is looking for an experienced engineer to join our core application platform teams within the Platform Engineering Group. In the next few years, you will focus on contributing to our vision, to drive our 10x growth from 2,500+ customers to 25,000+ customers.
If the idea of contributing to the critical and core services that drive the fundamental functioning and building blocks of data processing involved in our data pipelines, this opportunity fits you well. As an engineer on the core team, you will design, implement, and maintain the central parts of our data pipelines needed to operate the best-in-class reliable, secure, and scalable data movement. You will prioritize the quality, efficiency, and reliability of the responsibility areas of the team while collaborating effectively with other peers and the rest of the engineering organization.
The ideal candidate exhibits exceptional technical skills, meticulous attention to detail, creativity, motivation, and a results-oriented mindset.
About Fivetran’s Data Movement
Fivetran’s platform spans our core data pipeline processing framework, cloud architecture and infrastructure, internal development systems, security framework, standard components, quality engineering framework, and developer systems and experience. By combining those pillars into a massively scaling platform, we are able to manage data streaming and batch workloads for the three main public clouds: AWS, Azure, and GCP.
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
- Java17, JUnit5
- Docker and Kubernetes
- AWS, GCP, Azure
- SQL, BigQuery
- Bazel, BuildKite
What You’ll Do
- Design, Develop, and Debug: Lead the design, development, and debugging of software for distributed systems, ensuring robust, performant and scalable solutions.
- Project Leadership: Manage and lead multiple projects simultaneously, coordinating with different stakeholders to ensure timely and quality delivery in an iterative development environment.
- Mentorship and Collaboration: Serve as a leading contributor, both individually and as a team member, offering direction and mentorship to other engineers.
- Quality Assurance: Maintain high standards for code quality, performance, and reliability, conducting thorough testing and reviews.
- Innovation and Improvement: Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for the adoption of new tools and methodologies to improve the development process.
Skills We’re Looking For
- 8-10 years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems.
- Software engineering foundation - experience designing and developing reusable libraries and interfaces leveraging industry best practices.
- Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complicated projects.
- Strong knowledge of and experience with OOP, preferably Java.
- Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP,Azure) and containerization methodologies like docker, K8s.
- Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like Buildkite/Circle CI
- Strong written and verbal English skills to support complex analysis.
- Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic, Grafana is a plus
- Knowledge of Data Engineering is a plus
Bonus Skills
- Performance Engineering background is a plus - experience analyzing, troubleshooting and automating performance workloads on large-scale systems
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Perks and Benefits
- 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.
*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information
Click here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.
We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
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.
To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.
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