About the job
Since its inception, Fivetran has been dedicated to providing seamless and dependable access to data, akin to the reliability of electricity. With our technology, customer data is effortlessly integrated into their warehouses in a standardized format, ready for analysis without the need for engineering or ongoing maintenance. We take pride in the fact that more organizations are utilizing our solutions daily to become data-driven.
About the Role
As we build data pipelines that empower the modern data stack for thousands of companies, we are on the lookout for an exceptional and collaborative individual to join our Performance Engineering Team in the Platform Group as a Senior Staff Software Engineer. In this role, you will focus on developing top-tier enterprise capabilities and features tailored to our most demanding customers. The work you engage in will be highly visible and vital to the sustained growth and success of Fivetran, impacting our entire product suite as we advance our next-generation offerings in enterprise, data governance, and solutions engineering.
Your main responsibility will be to ensure our product suite meets or surpasses performance benchmarks, enhancing overall product performance. This includes proposing and designing features that improve performance, executing performance tests, analyzing results to pinpoint issues, and proactively resolving them. You will also monitor system performance over time, identify trends, and suggest enhancements. Collaborating with engineers across various teams, you will participate in discussions, debates, and code reviews to refine ideas, designs, and implementations.
The ideal candidate will embody a humble learning attitude, embracing current realities while approaching challenges from a foundational perspective. They will contribute innovative insights, empowering the team to make informed design choices. You will be actively involved in implementation tasks, consistently refining decision-making factors to align with strategic objectives.
This full-time position is based in our Oakland office. Our hybrid work model provides a mix of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, with two days in the office each week to foster team connection and growth.

