Senior Software Engineer

USA - Oakland💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-11 → 2026-10-07

Core

Design and implement highly scalable distributed data pipelines on the cloud for enterprise customers, focusing on performance engineering, data security, and cluster orchestration.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Infrastructure)

Builds

Enterprise-grade data movement, transformation, and governance solutions

Domain

Data Infrastructure / Cloud Engineering

Required skills

Distributed systems design, Performance engineering, Data security, Cluster orchestration, Cloud architecture, Scalability optimization (via careerplan.io/jobs/7768594003-senior-software-engineer-at-fivetran)

Preferred skills

AI tool integration, Enterprise software development

Technologies

Java, SQL, Bazel, BuildKite, Docker, Kubernetes, Github, AWS, GCP, Azure, Postgres

Responsibilities

Design and implement features and performance improvements for distributed data pipelines, Develop, maintain, and test code, Conduct design and code reviews, Understand and fix challenges related to performance and scalability

About Fivetran

Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data. Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on. Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights.