Remote Principal Software Engineer, Data Lakes

Summary

Join Fivetran's team as a Principal Software Engineer to lead technical architecture, design, and development of Data Lake product offering. Partner with product teams, design cutting-edge capabilities, and operate large-scale data lake systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on or research experience with high-performance relational data management systems
• Deep understanding of infrastructure & software optimizations and performance engineering to drive significant performance, latency, and availability improvements
• Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complicated projects
• Strong development skills in Java and C++
• Solid experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Demonstrated knowledge of columnar storage formats
• Growth mindset and excitement about breaking the status quo by seeking innovative solutions
• Excellent team player who is consistent in making everyone around you better

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with product teams to understand requirements and design cutting-edge new capabilities that go directly into customer’s hands
• Design, develop, implement, and operate highly reliable large-scale data lake systems in cooperation with a dedicated data lake engineering team
• Contribute to open-source projects such as DuckDB
• Embrace Fivetran innovations with open-source standards and toolsets
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them
• Ensure operational excellence of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding security, reliability, availability, and performance
• Set technical directions and influence cross-functional teams

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance
• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
• RSU stock grants
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents