Principal Software Engineer

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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