Principal Software Engineer
Fivetran
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 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.
Technologies You’ll Use
- Java, Temporal, gRPC, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Grafana
What You’ll Do
- Serve as the chief architect for the global connector group.
- Take ownership and lead initiatives to make our SaaS connectors the fastest in the industry, focusing on performance and optimization.
- Drive engineering excellence through architecture design and reviews for data pipeline service projects and features.
- Lead engineering-wide initiatives across several key technologies.
- Collaborate actively with the Office of the CTO as a member of our architecture guild.
- Work closely with other principal engineers across multiple development locations.
- Contribute as an active engineering team member to deliver robust, scalable features.
- Enhance engineering systems, documentation, and development processes.
- Coach and mentor senior/staff engineers, fostering a culture of growth and excellence.
- Support hiring efforts by participating in the interview process.
Skills We’re Looking For
- 15+ years of professional experience in designing and delivering large-scale, enterprise-level software products.
- Extensive experience as an architect or principal level engineer, with a collaborative yet decisive leadership style that drives change effectively.
- Proven ability to lead and deliver large-scale architectural projects with a strong focus on achieving results.
- Thrives in collaborative settings with both technical (engineers, leads) and non-technical (product managers, analysts) team members to develop complex, system-level features.
- Strong interpersonal skills and adaptability to engage effectively across all levels, from hands-on work with engineers to high-level collaboration with the CTO.
- Extensive back-end development experience, ideally for customer-facing products.
- Skilled in writing well-structured, efficient code and adept in designing, building, maintaining, testing, and deploying software.
- Experienced in developing concepts, building proofs-of-concept (POCs), and bringing projects to production-ready status.
- Proficient in end-to-end system profiling, performance tuning, and optimization.
- Experienced in cloud environment architectures, utilizing technologies such as AWS, GCP, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, and CircleCI.
- Hands-on experience with data pipelines and relational databases, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or MySQL.
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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
- RSU stock grants*
- 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
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We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
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.
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