Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Fivetran • Oakland, CA

14h • Hybrid

About The Position

Fivetran is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Backend to join their Reverse ETL product engineering team. This team was formerly Census and was acquired in May 2025 to enhance Fivetran’s warehouse-first data movement product. The goal is to integrate this product directly into the Fivetran dashboard, providing data activation capabilities to all Fivetran customers. As a staff software engineer, you will be instrumental in integrating data activation features across various aspects of the Fivetran product, including authentication, billing, data models, and the user interface. You will be a senior member of a distributed, collaborative, and agile team composed of engineers with diverse experience levels and backgrounds. This is a full-time position offered in either the Toronto or Oakland office, with a hybrid work model that balances remote flexibility with in-person collaboration.

Requirements

• Expertise in at least one interpreted language such as Python, Ruby on Rails, etc.
• Hands-on experience with at least one compiled language such as C++, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Java, etc.
• Solid understanding of relational databases
• Proven experience in system integration, including API consumption and development
• Familiarity with leading cloud providers, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
• Experience being on-call
• Can build things end-to-end. Our engineers build, deploy and maintain their code.
• Is adept with data, backend systems, APIs, and UI components.
• Is customer-focused, with an eye for building delightful product experiences and developer experiences.
• Approaches new problems with a scrappy optimism, with a bias towards action.
• Thrives in ambiguous environments where you get to work directly with customers and make decisions that build trust and have a huge impact on the business.
• Present and available online for synchronous and asynchronous collaboration with a team distributed across North America.
• Able to work in-person in our Toronto/Oakland office 2 days per week.

Nice To Haves

• experience with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake) is a bonus
• experience with infrastructure management is a bonus

Responsibilities

• Make contributions to all parts of our tech stack, which comprises Ruby on Rails, Typescript, Vue, and AWS.
• Be comfortable “filling in the gaps” in product / design specs.
• Work closely with our product team, leaders, and customers to help design and develop features that make Fivetran the one-stop shop for data activation.
• Mentor early-career engineers, perform thoughtful and constructive code reviews, advise on best practices, provide project-level leadership, operate across teams, departments, and time zones.
• Lead major projects, from driving research spikes, to writing and socializing design documents, to planning the implementation and rollout.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed