Principal Software Engineer – Data Lakes

🕒 June 16

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚰 Data Engineer

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Fivetran

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

💰 $565M Series D on 2021-09

Consulting • Logistics • Data Integration

Fivetran is a company that focuses on simplifying the process of data integration by providing automated data connectors that sync data from different sources into data warehouses, enabling seamless analytics and insights. Using a streamlined, fully-managed approach, Fivetran helps businesses consolidate their data infrastructure to ensure consistent data availability and reliability.

📋 Description

• 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. • Contribute to open-source projects such as DuckDB and Polaris. • Embrace Fivetran innovations with open-source standards and toolsets. • Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them. • Ensure operational excellence of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding security, reliability, availability, and performance. • Set technical directions and influence cross-functional teams.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on or research experience with high-performance relational data management systems. • Deep understanding of infrastructure & software optimizations and performance engineering to drive significant performance, latency, and availability improvements. • Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complicated projects. • Strong development skills in Java and C++. • Solid experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP). • Demonstrated knowledge of columnar storage formats. • 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.

🏖️ 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.