Senior Software Engineer - Databases

About the Role Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. Fivetran is looking for a Senior Software Engineer enthusiastic to join our fast-growing company. As a part of the Data Validation Team, you will help build new features for our data validation service, improve our software architecture, and maintain the reliable operation of the service. We're looking for someone eager to learn and apply the key values that make our product great, dive deep into complex investigations into data validation, and build a world-class data validation solution. Fivetran is the epitome of data-driven-development — our engineering team is focused on building a world class product that: - Facilitates Data Analytics — join our mission to reliably deliver best-in class schemas, and clean data, designed to be intuitively useful to analysts.- Contributes to our Community — help develop tools like Data Lakes, SQL-based Transformations, and schema explorers to empower analysts to choose the best tools, and to make those tools more powerful. - Is Absolutely Dependable — work to make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure. We emphasize using no-nonsense tools, and take great pride in the simplicity and effectiveness of the systems we build. Our back-end is built on Java, Postgres, and Kubernetes, and our front-end is built on React and Typescript. This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland, California office. Technologies You’ll Use Java, SQL, AWS, GCP What You’ll Do

• Dive deep into data replication debugging, analyzing existing code that is in use by hundreds of customers today. Some clients are operating the largest Oracle clusters in the world.
• Analyze new features that are introduced by various data sources including Snowflake, BigQuery, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, and NoSQL databases and determine how to develop supporting features.
• Contribute to the efforts to the maintenance and improvement of existing connectors; call for improvement in all areas of Fivetran's codebase and infrastructure
• Be a part of the process to move a high performance client side service to the cloud and operate at scale
• Develop software designs and technical roadmap for the team
• Contribute to hiring by participating in the interview process Skills We’re Looking For
• 5+ years programming in Java languages
• Writes well-structured and performant code
• Be able to dive into code that has been previously written and suggest improvements
• Understand and can explain how to build high performance systems and processes
• Able to define project requirements and be proficient at designing software and infrastructure
• Enjoy mentoring and growing junior develops
• Have an analytical mindset that helps you identify design flaws in existing systems and come up with improvements
• Experience understanding customer requirements and/or problems and breaking them down into engineering tasks Bonus Skills​
• Data Validation or data quality of sources and destinations
• Has worked with Data Sketches
• Experience in working with open source projects with other collaborators
• Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms
• Experience in designing and developing file, event, application, or database connectors
• Experienced working in a cloud environment utilizing AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CircleCI, or similar technologies

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