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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Fivetran ·
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AI-Agency
B45 U60
📍 DE 🌐 Remote-only 🛠 AI tools welcome at work Staff 10+ yrs
Java17DockerKubernetesAWSGCPAzureTemporalBazel
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Senior Staff Software Engineer at Fivetran building core platform services for data movement infrastructure. Focus on distributed systems design, cloud architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure), and reliability across Kubernetes and containerized workloads.

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Job description

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 the Role

Fivetran is looking for an experienced engineer to join our core application platform team within the Platform Engineering group. In the next few years, you will focus on contributing to our vision and drive our 10x growth to 25,000+ customers.

If you are excited about contributing to the critical core services that are fundamental to powering Open Data Infrastructure, this opportunity fits you well. As a member of the Platform team, you will design, implement, and maintain the central parts of Fivetran core that are needed to operate the best-in-class, reliable, secure, and scalable data movement platform. You will prioritize quality, efficiency, and reliability of the team's responsibility areas while collaborating effectively with your peers and the rest of the engineering organization. You will use various AI tools to supercharge your productivity.

The ideal candidate exhibits exceptional technical skills, meticulous attention to detail, creativity, motivation, and a result-oriented mindset.

Fivetran platform spans across our core data pipeline processing framework, cloud architecture and infrastructure, internal development systems, security framework, standard components, quality engineering tools, and developer systems and experience. By combining those pillars into a massively scalable platform, we are able to manage data streaming and batch workloads for the three main public clouds: AWS, Azure, and GCP.

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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.

To learn more about our candidate privacy policy, you can read our statement here.


We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this form. We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.

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