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Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. The company is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join their Performance Engineering Team to focus on developing world-class enterprise capabilities and features in support of their largest and most sophisticated customers, ensuring the product base meets or exceeds performance standards and driving the overall performance of their products.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling high-throughput, low-latency distributed backend systems.
• Deep expertise in Java performance engineering, including profiling, tuning, and garbage collection optimization.
• Familiarity with performance testing frameworks, load simulation, and continuous benchmarking.
• Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and systems design.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience in JVM internals, async I/O frameworks (Netty, Vert.x), or reactive systems.
• Familiarity with database performance tuning (Postgres, Snowflake, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Develop and Debug code to identify and fix performance issues
• Analyze production workloads and system performance metrics to identify performance bottlenecks in our system.
• 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.
• 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.
• Actively engage with fellow engineers in design and code reviews to ensure we deliver performant solutions that improves the product’s efficiency.

Other

• This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland office.
• Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.
• A successful candidate will possess a humble learning attitude, embracing existing realities and approaching challenges from a fundamental perspective.
• They will contribute fresh perspectives, enabling the team to make optimal design decisions.
• Demonstrated experience influencing technical direction and engineering culture across teams.