• Design, build, and maintain full-stack web applications using TypeScript across frontend and backend. • Contribute to architecture decisions and establish technical standards and best practices for the team. • Develop responsive, accessible user interfaces using React-based frameworks. • Build and maintain RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs and backend services. • Define and manage cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools. • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support reliable, repeatable deployments. • Write automated tests at appropriate levels and contribute to a culture of test-driven development. • Communicate effectively with teammates and stakeholders. • Maintain clear technical documentation for applications, services, and development processes. • Participate in code reviews to uphold code quality and share knowledge across the team. • Provide mentorship and technical guidance to less experienced developers.

• This role exists to bridge the gap between ambitious business goals and high-performance engineering reality. • You’ll help us scale our technical ecosystem by taking full ownership of architectural blueprints, governance standards, and the long-term stability of our distributed systems. • Define and evangelize technology principles that balance short-term delivery with long-term system vitality. • Architect distributed systems using Domain-Driven Design (DDD), CQRS, and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). • Select and validate the right tools—from Kafka streams to NoSQL stores—to solve specific scale bottlenecks. • Design for failure by implementing patterns like Circuit Breaker, Bulkhead, and advanced Rate-limiting. • Establish governance frameworks that unblock developers rather than slowing them down with bureaucracy. • Optimize data strategies, including sharding, replication, and performance tuning for SQL/NoSQL databases under heavy load. • Build scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible). • Modernize CI/CD pipelines to ensure automated, secure, and rapid deployments. • Drive FinOps initiatives to ensure our cloud architecture is as cost-efficient as it is performant. • Unblock engineering teams by breaking down complex problems into clear, documented architectural blueprints. • Lead architecture reviews and mentor senior engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence.

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven. About the Role We’re seeking a Staff Software Engineer to contribute to the technical architecture, design, and development of Fivetran’s Managed Data Lake product offering. As part of a senior engineering team, you’ll partner with product and engineering teams to build scalable, high-performance systems, advance open-source technologies, and set technical standards that raise the bar across the organization. This is a full-time remote position based out of Germany. Technologies You’ll Use - Java, Postgres, Temporal, gRPC - AWS, GCP, Azure, Istio, Kubernetes, Grafana - Iceberg, Polaris, Delta Lake, Parquet, DuckDB What You’ll Do - 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 and our SRE teams. - Drive significant performance, latency, and availability improvements for our data lake services - Ensure operational excellence of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding security, reliability, availability, and performance. - Investigate and resolve fault-tolerance and high availability issues as well as performance and scale challenges both inside and across service boundaries. - Embrace Fivetran innovations with open-source standards and toolsets. - Set technical directions and influence cross-functional teams. Skills We’re Looking For - 5+ years of hands-on experience maintaining and operating high-performance containerized applications that span multiple services. - Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, deployment, service orchestration, software optimizations and performance engineering of highly distributed services. - Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complicated projects. - Strong development skills in Java. - Experience running and debugging Kubernetes containerized services. - Solid experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP). - 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. Bonus Skills - Hands-on experience with high-performance relational data management systems. - Demonstrated knowledge of columnar storage formats. - Strongly prefer an MS in Computer Science. #LI-IM1 #LI-Remote Perks and 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. *May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information Click here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region. We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes. Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities. To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video. To learn more about our candidate privacy policy, you can read our statement here. We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this form. We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.

• 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 and our SRE teams. • Drive significant performance, latency, and availability improvements for our data lake services • Ensure operational excellence of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding security, reliability, availability, and performance. • Investigate and resolve fault-tolerance and high availability issues as well as performance and scale challenges both inside and across service boundaries. • Embrace Fivetran innovations with open-source standards and toolsets. • Set technical directions and influence cross-functional teams.