Software Engineer III

USA - Oakland💼 Full-time💰 $174,915–$174,915🗓 2026-07-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, implement, and maintain central components of distributed data pipelines to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable data movement for customers.

Role type

Senior IC backend software engineer (distributed systems)

Builds

Cloud-based data pipelines and infrastructure

Domain

Data infrastructure / Cloud engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Java, distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD tools, code reviews, performance optimization, object-oriented design

Preferred skills

Observability tools (New Relic/Grafana), AI tools

Technologies

Java 17, JUnit5, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, SQL, BigQuery, Bazel, BuildKite

Responsibilities

Design and implement features for scalable distributed data pipelines; develop, maintain, and test code; conduct design and code reviews; collaborate with peers and stakeholders; fix performance and scalability challenges; participate in on-call rotation; mentor junior developers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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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.