Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies
We’re looking for a brilliant and collaborative individual to join our Performance Engineering Team as a Staff Software Engineer. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure that our product base meets or exceeds performance standards, driving the overall performance of our products. This entails proposing and designing performance-enhancing features and improvements. You will also design and execute performance tests, analyze data to identify performance issues, and resolve these issues proactively. Additionally, you will monitor system performance over time, identify trends, and recommend improvements. Collaboratively with engineers from other teams, you will engage in discussions, debates, and code reviews to refine ideas, designs, and code
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. This candidate will be actively involved in implementation tasks, continuously refining decision-making factors to recalibrate realities and achieve strategic goals. The ideal candidate exhibits exceptional technical skills, meticulous attention to detail, creativity, motivation, and a results-oriented mindset
This is a Hybrid 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
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
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