Senior Staff Software Engineer – Data Lakes
Fivetran
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformJava
About the role
- 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.
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.
- Excellent team player who is consistent in making everyone around you better.
Benefits
- 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
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
JavaC++high-performance relational data management systemsinfrastructure optimizationsoftware optimizationperformance engineeringcolumnar storage formatsdata lake systemsfault-tolerancehigh availability
Soft skills
team playerleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvinggrowth mindsetinnovationcommunicationinfluenceoperational excellencecommitment