Software Engineer II - Performance

About the Role Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. We’re looking for a talented Software Engineer with a passion for building enterprise grade software to join the Performance Engineering team in the Platform Group. You will be focusing on developing world-class enterprise capabilities and features in support of our largest and most sophisticated customers. The work we do is both highly visible and critically important to the long term growth and success of Fivetran. You will have an impact across the entire product as we develop our next generation of enterprise, data governance, and solutions engineering offerings. As a Software Engineer in our Performance Engineering Team, your primary focus will be to ensure that our product base meets or exceeds performance standards driving the performance of the entire product base. This involves designing and executing performance tests, analyzing data to identify performance issues, and resolving these issues. Additionally you will monitor the system performance over time, identify trends and recommend improvements. You will collaborate with fellow Staff and Senior engineers on ideas, designs, and code reviews. The ideal candidate is highly technical, detail-oriented, creative, motivated, and focused on achieving results. This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of our Oakland office. Technologies You’ll Use

• Java17, JUnit5
• Docker and Kubernetes
• AWS, GCP, Azure
• RDBMS and NoSQL Databases
• New Relic
• Terraform
• Bazel What You’ll Do
• Develop and Debug code to identify and fix performance issues
• Analyze production workloads and system performance metrics to identify performance bottlenecks in our system
• Design, develop and maintain performance benchmarks
• Build proof of concepts and translate successful ones into solutions to maximize Fivetran product’s performance and efficiency
• Build and maintain a platform that focuses on improving the performance, resilience and quality of Fivetran products
• Impact Fivetran business across product verticals through the work you do
• Develop deep expertise in Fivetran's Product, Infrastructure, and Platform
• Communicate, coordinate, and align strategy with the engineering team members; make recommendations to improve reliability, performance, best practices, and processes
• Work with cross-functional teams (Developers, Product, SRE) across the organization
• Actively engage with fellow engineers in design and code reviews to ensure we deliver performant solutions that improves the product’s efficiency Skills We’re Looking For
• 2+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems.
• Software engineering foundation - experience designing and developing reusable libraries and experimentation platforms for backend and frontend from scratch leveraging industry best practices.
• Strong knowledge of and experience with OOP, preferably Java.
• Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization methodologies like Docker, K8s.
• Experience working with RDBMS or NoSQL databases.
• Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like CircleCI/Jenkins.
• Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic, Splunk, DataDog is a plus
• Knowledge of Data Engineering is a plus Bonus Skills​
• Performance Engineering background - experience analyzing, troubleshooting and automating performance workloads on large scale systems

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