Senior Software Engineer - Database Connectors

About the Role

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our mission critical database connector team and perform a healthy mix of design and implementation tasks to advance the technical foundation behind the Fivetran product offering.

As a senior engineer in the database connector team, focusing on capturing data from relational databases, you will contribute to the entire software development lifecycle for the capabilities critical to making our largest enterprise customers successful. You will collaborate with engineers across the engineering organization as we identify opportunities for product improvements. You will be responsible for ensuring the technical excellence of your team and own services by reviewing code and contributing to architectural designs.

A successful candidate will be experienced and confident enough to be decisive when needed, and be practical enough to build and iterate on the system while it's in production. Having strong ownership and proactiveness is key to the success of this role.

This is a full-time position based out of our Novi Sad office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.

Technologies You’ll Use

• C, Java, SQL, Google BigQuery, Snowflake
• Database and/or Postgres specific
• GCP, AWS, Azure

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement and test code. 
• Review and approve technical design documents and pull requests.
• Mentor other members of the team and assist with their challenges.
• Care and take ownership of our database connectors, and leverage your skills towards improving code quality by identifying issues, gaps, and maintaining the code. 
• Collaborate with different parties (sibling teams, PM, Customer support and sales) to deliver the best product with high quality and scalability.
• Work across the project lifecycle: requirements, design, prototype, implementation, review, testing, release, and monitor product and iterate again with feedbacks.

Skills We’re Looking For

• Experience in C
• Experience in Relational Databases, SQL language, and DBMS call-level interfaces
• Experience with data replication, ETL/ELT tools, cloud and software-defined infrastructure tools (AWS Cloud Formation, Kubernetes, Docker)
• You know how to design and code systems and software that is effective, intuitive, easy to operate, and elegantly simple. 
• You know complex structures, object orientation, exceptions, and memory management techniques.
• You are adaptable and have the willingness to learn new skills while being flexible to work within new environments.

Optional Bonus Skills​

• Experience in Postgres and its internal, such as the Write-Ahead-Logging, is a strong plus
• Java
• API technologies and analytics is a plus
• Be confident to dive into the nitty-gritty innards of database systems

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