Staff Software Engineer - Databases

About The Role

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our core platform team and perform a healthy mix of design and implementation tasks to advance the technical foundation behind the Fivetran product offering.

This team is tasked with evolving a high performance extract-load-transform data integration system that enables our engineering teams to correctly implement hundreds of data connectors with minimal maintenance effort. The role will challenge you to reason about relational semantics, powerful abstractions, data representation, and software performance. You don’t necessarily need to be a subject matter expert before you join us (you will be one before you leave!), but you will need to have experience working carefully with a high impact software team — especially in environments where the best option may not be obvious, your decisions have cascading implications, and where you sometimes need to measure twice before you cut once.

A successful candidate will be humble enough to collect diverse input and build consensus, will be experienced and confident enough to be decisive when it’s needed, and will be practical enough to build and iterate on the system while it’s in production. We are also looking for a high level of expertise and productivity with modern software development environments.

This is a full-time position based in our Amsterdam office.

Technologies You'll Use

• C, Java, relational databases (Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server), make
• Angular
• Jenkins, IntelliJ IDEA, Buildkite, Bazel, Docker, GCP, Azure, AWS
• macOS/Linux/Unix/Windows, git

What You'll Do

• Learn deeply about Fivetran in order to focus development on practical and relevant system improvements
• Contribute to the development and planning of our platform roadmap
• Collaborate with a small but mighty core team, and with a broader set of stakeholders
• Work across the project lifecycle: requirements, design, prototype, implementation, review, release, monitoring
• Review and approve technical design documents and pull requests
• Mentor other senior members of the team on their own challenges
• Care and feel ownership of our product platform, and leverage your skills towards improving it

Skills We're Looking For

• You are execution-oriented, and understand the need to target your “innovation budget” for the greatest impact: you find the middle ground between “perfect, but takes forever to code” and “fixes it now, but nobody will ever be able to understand what I did”
• You know how to design and code systems and software that is effective, intuitive, easy-to-operate, and elegantly simple
• You have worked with the relevant tooling and techniques: cloud services, network protocols, serialization, relational databases, etc.
• You are skilled at communicating technical topics and risks to both technical and non-technical audiences
• You are adept at inclusive alignment discussions: balancing soliciting input with influencing peers and advocating for yourself
• You have knowledge of complex structures, object orientation, exceptions, memory management techniques.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with data replication, ETL/ELT tools, cloud and software defined infrastructure tools (for instance AWS Cloud Formation, Kubernetes, Docker), API technologies and analytics is definitely a plus
• Knowledge of DBMS internals, such as the transaction logging system, is a strong plus
• Familiarity with low level concepts, such as encoding and the internals of network communication, is a strong plus
• Familiarity with system level programming (such as process and memory management and inter-process communication) is a plus

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