Senior Staff Systems Engineer, GTM
About The Position
Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. We're looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Systems Engineering team and lead the engineering behind our internal AI-powered application ecosystem. This is a high-leverage, high-visibility role with three interlocking mandates. First, you will own the development and governance of a code library and set of agent rules that will serve as the architectural foundation for multiple internal AI-enabled webapps at Fivetran. Second, you will work with stakeholders to develop, productionalize, and enhance custom apps built on this foundation. Third, you will act as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership, shaping policy and governance for how non-engineers should use AI to safely develop, productionalize, and deploy apps. This position sits at the crossroads of software engineering, platform architecture, and AI-assisted development. You will partner closely with business stakeholders and engineering platform teams across the company, translating a fast-moving, experimental "everyone builds" culture into production software held to a high standard of security, reliability, and maintainability. This is a full-time position based out of our Oakland, CA 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.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in the software industry with a passion for solving complex software engineering problems - experience designing and developing reusable libraries and experimentation platforms for backend and frontend from scratch leveraging industry best practices
- Experience working with distributed systems and cloud security concepts
- Demonstrated ability to write well-structured and performant code
- Ability to independently lead software and infrastructure design to satisfy project requirements
- Can identify design flaws in existing systems and come up with improvements
- Experience in code reviews, design, troubleshooting and testing
- Experience programming in an object oriented / systems language such as Java, C++, C# etc
- Hands-on experience working with any cloud technologies(AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization methodologies like Docker, K8s
- Experience interacting with continuous integration tools like BuildKite
- Understand how to use AI code assist and coding agents to automatically generate code for features, bugs, testing, and investigation
- Ability to use conversational AI systems (like Claude, ChatGPT, and internal chatbots) to support researching, authoring, reviewing, and synthesizing various SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, Postmortems, Test Plans, and Proposals
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of observability tools like New Relic/Grafana is a plu
- Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms
Responsibilities
- Independently design and implement features and performance improvements to create highly scalable distributed data pipelines on the cloud
- Develop, maintain, and test code
- Conduct design and code reviews
- Collaborate with peers, product managers, customer support, and other stakeholders to deliver the best product with high quality, performance, and scalability
- Understand and fix challenges related to performance and scalability.
- Participate periodically in on-call rotation
- Participate in the hiring process
- Mentor Junior developers
- Make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays (including a year end Global Week of Rest), 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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