Senior Staff SDET Engineer

<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-size: 10pt;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. As we grow, so does the need for high-confidence delivery, platform resilience, and automation that scales with product complexity.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">As a Senior Staff SDET, you’ll lead from the front– owning shared automation infrastructure, influencing release quality strategy, and driving initiatives that span teams and systems. This role sits at the intersection of hands-on engineering, architectural leadership, and org-wide quality influence.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">You will architect and scale automation utilities/libraries, design and build internal tools that improve developer productivity and test efficiency, and establish testing strategies that ensure high-confidence releases across business-critical systems. You will work cross-functionally across teams and domains to influence quality culture, mentor engineers, and drive initiatives that shape how Fivetran builds and ships software. In addition, this role emphasizes leveraging AI driven solutions to accelerate testing, enhance developer productivity, and improve operational insights, making Fivetran’s quality practices smarter, faster, and more scalable.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This role requires deep technical expertise, architectural foresight, and the ability to scale impact beyond code through systems thinking, tool building, and strategic alignment.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></strong></span></p> <p><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Technologies You’ll Use</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Languages Frameworks: Java (17+), JUnit, REST Assured, Shell scripting; Python (optional)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Infrastructure Tooling: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bazel, Buildkite</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Cloud Platform: AWS, GCP, Azure</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Observability Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">CI/CD Automation: Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Data Testing:ELT pipelines, test automation utilities, whitebox testing strategies</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Databases: SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB)</span></li> </ul> <p><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lead the architecture of internal tools, libraries, and utilities for test automation and benchmarking, enabling scalable quality solutions across teams and domains.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Define and evolve quality strategies covering testability, release readiness, performance, and reliability.< ... (truncated, view full listing at source)