Senior Staff Software Engineer

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Senior Staff Software Engineer in USA

Fivetran
Full time
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USA
08/26/2026
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Oakland, CA

Responsibilities

Develop and debug code to identify and resolve performance issues.
Analyze production workloads and system performance metrics to identify bottlenecks.
Build proof of concepts and turn successful approaches into performance and efficiency solutions.
Build and maintain a platform focused on product performance, resilience, and quality.
Monitor system performance over time, identify trends, and recommend improvements.
Coordinate strategy and recommendations with engineering teams across product, infrastructure, and platform areas.
Collaborate with developers, product teams, SRE, and other cross-functional teams.
Participate in design and code reviews to ensure performant solutions.

Requirements

10+ years of hands-on software industry experience solving complex software engineering problems.
Experience architecting reliable distributed systems with an emphasis on high-volume data management.
Experience building backend services and data systems.
Expertise with algorithms and data structures, Java, and databases.
Performance engineering experience analyzing, troubleshooting, and automating workloads on large-scale systems is a plus.
Hands-on experience with cloud technologies and containerization is a plus.
Experience with cloud warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and Databricks is a plus.
Familiarity with system-level programming, including process and memory management and inter-process communication, is a plus.
Knowledge of observability tools such as New Relic, Splunk, or Datadog is a plus.

Benefits

Hybrid work arrangement based out of the Oakland office.
100% employer-paid medical insurance, subject to country and worker type.
Paid time off, paid sick time, parental leave, holidays, a Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
RSU stock grants.
Professional development and training opportunities.
Company virtual events, free food, and team-building activities.
Monthly cell phone stipend.
Mental health support platform with therapy, coaching, and mindfulness resources for employees and covered dependents.

Fivetran

Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, helps customers use their data to power everything from AI applications and ML models, to predictive analytics and operational workloads. The Fivetran platform reliably and securely centralizes data from hundreds of SaaS applications and databases int...

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