Principal Software Engineer

Fivetran
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, APACPosted 24 February 2026

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><br>About the role<br><br></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fivetran is seeking an ambitious, accomplished, and independent Principal Software Engineer to make a significant impact in our fast-growing company. In this key role, you’ll build and enhance our software architecture, guide our teams in developing infrastructure that ensures reliable data pipeline operations, and collaborate hands-on to build challenging new features. We’re looking for someone who understands and upholds the core values that make our product exceptional, and who can embed these values into the many decisions made each day as one of our most senior engineers. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Technologies You’ll Use<br><br></strong></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Java, Temporal, gRPC, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Grafana<br><br></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What You’ll Do<br><br></strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Serve as the chief architect for the global connector group.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Take ownership and lead initiatives to make our SaaS connectors the fastest in the industry, focusing on performance and optimization.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Drive engineering excellence through architecture design and reviews for data pipeline service projects and features.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lead engineering-wide initiatives across several key technologies.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Collaborate actively with the Office of the CTO as a member of our architecture guild.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Work closely with other principal engineers across multiple development locations.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Contribute as an active engineering team member to deliver robust, scalable features.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Enhance engineering systems, documentation ... (truncated, view full listing at source)