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.
Contribute to open-source projects such as DuckDB and Apache Polaris.
Embrace Fivetran innovations with open-source standards and toolsets.
Set technical directions and influence cross-functional teams.

5+ years of hands-on or research 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.

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.

Senior Staff Software Engineer – Distributed Systems

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