Fivetran is looking to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity by building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies, specifically contributing to the technical architecture, design and development of Fivetran’s Managed Data Lake product offering.
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.
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 and Polaris.
- 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.
Other
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, ideally focusing on database management and/or storage engines (preferred).
- 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
- Excellent team player who is consistent in making everyone around you better.
