Senior Staff Software Engineer - Performance Engineering

<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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We are looking for a brilliant and collaborative individual to join our Performance Engineering Team in the Platform Group as a Senior Staff Software Engineer. 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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Your primary responsibility will be to ensure that our product base meets or exceeds performance standards, driving the overall performance of our products. This entails proposing and designing performance-enhancing features and improvements. You will also design and execute performance tests, analyze data to identify performance issues, and resolve these issues proactively. Additionally, you will monitor system performance over time, identify trends, and recommend improvements. Collaboratively with engineers from other teams, you will engage in discussions, debates, and code reviews to refine ideas, designs, and code.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A successful candidate will possess a humble learning attitude, embracing existing realities and approaching challenges from a fundamental perspective. They will contribute fresh perspectives, enabling the team to make optimal design decisions. This candidate will be actively involved in implementation tasks, continuously refining decision-making factors to recalibrate realities and achieve strategic goals.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This is a full-time position based out of our <span class="emphasis">Oakland 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></span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Technologies You’ll Use</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Java (JVM, JIT, GC tuning, thread management), JUnit</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Docker and Kubernetes</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">AWS, GCP</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Terraform, WireMock, RestAssured</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bazel, BuildKite</span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What You’ll Do</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Develop and Debug code to identify and fix performance issues</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Analyze production workloads and system performance metrics to identify performance bottlenecks in our system.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Build proof of concepts and translate successful ones into solutions to maximize Fivetran product’s performance and efficiency.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Build and maintain a platform that focuses on improving the performance, resilience and quality of Fivetran products.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Impact Fivetran business across product verticals through the work you do.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Develop deep ... (truncated, view full listing at source)