Staff Software Engineer - ETL Platform

<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’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our ETL Platform team.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We own the core platform that backs Census’ sync engine. We are responsible for keeping our customer data flowing smoothly - on time, every time. We design and implement projects like our recent Sync Tracking overhaul - enabling us to capture, store, and process huge datasets, giving customers complete visibility into what data is flowing through our pipes; providing the capability to verify that every record is getting where it needs to go. We manage a constantly scaling and resizing fleet of machines to handle the dynamic needs of our customers, so one could call us the shadow infrastructure team as well.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of either our New York or Oakland offices.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Technologies You'll Use</span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Expertise in at least one interpreted language such as Python, Ruby on Rails, etc.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Expertise in at least one compiled language such as C++, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Java, etc.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Solid understanding of relational databases (experience with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake) is a bonus)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Proven experience in system integration, including API consumption and development (experience with infrastructure management is a bonus)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Familiarity with leading cloud providers, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience being on-call</span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What You’ll Do</span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Make valuable contributions to the deepest recesses of our tech stack – including writing typesafe Ruby and Rails with Sorbet, building performant Kotlin microservices, managing highly available Spark clusters, working on deterministic Temporal workflows, and Terraforming all the things in AWS. </span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Think in Parquet, live in cloud storage, and have data flowing through your veins.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Operate in hostile territory on all sides–building and managing a data diffing ETL engine that operates across every type of data warehouse and SQL dialect imaginable on data you don’t own or control, and send it to countless permutations of destinations that could respond any number of unpredictable ways.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Be a reliable and steadfast operator, participating in the team on-call rotation to help diagnose, triage and fix performance bottlenecks and gnarly edge-cases our customers discover. You’ll leave the campsite cleaner than you found it.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Work closely with our product team to help desig ... (truncated, view full listing at source)