Software Engineer - Performance Engineering 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 building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.
We’re looking for a talented Software Engineer with a passion for building enterprise grade software to join the Performance Engineering team in the Platform Group. You will be focusing on developing world-class enterprise capabilities and features in support of our largest and most sophisticated customers. The work we do is both highly visible and critically important to the long term growth and success of Fivetran. You will have an impact across the entire product as we develop our next generation of enterprise, data governance, and solutions engineering offerings.
As a Software Engineer in our Performance Engineering Team, your primary focus will be to ensure that our product base meets or exceeds performance standards driving the performance of the entire product base. This involves designing and executing performance tests, analyzing data to identify performance issues, and resolving these issues. Additionally, you will monitor the system performance over time, identify trends and recommend improvements. You will collaborate with fellow Staff and Senior engineers on ideas, designs, and code reviews. The ideal candidate is highly technical, detail-oriented, creative, motivated, and focused on achieving results.
This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of our Oakland, CA office.
Technologies You’ll Use
Java 17, JUnit 5
Docker and Kubernetes
RDBMS and NoSQL Databases
New Relic
Terraform
What You’ll Do
Develop and debug code to identify and fix performance issues
Analyze production workloads and system performance metrics to identify performance bottlenecks in our system
Design, develop and maintain performance benchmarks
Build proof of concepts and translate successful ones into solutions to maximize Fivetran product’s performance and efficiency
Build and maintain a platform that focuses on improving the performance, resilience and quality of Fivetran products
Impact Fivetran business across product verticals through the work you do
Develop deep expertise in Fivetran's Product, Infrastructure, and Platform
Communicate, coordinate, and align strategy with the engineering team members; make recommendations to improve reliability, performance, best practices, and processes
Work with cross-functional teams (Developers, Product, SRE) across the organization
Actively engage with fellow engineers in design and code reviews to ensure we deliver performant solutions that improve the product’s efficiency
Minimum Qualifications
2+ 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 experimentation platforms for backend and frontend from scratch leveraging industry best practices
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 working with RDBMS or NoSQL databases
Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like CircleCI/Jenkins
Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic, Splunk, DataDog is a plus
Knowledge of Data Engineering is a plus
Bonus Skills
Performance Engineering background - experience analyzing, troubleshooting and automating performance workloads on large scale systems
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
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
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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