Senior Software Engineer - C Programmer

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 core 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.

Responsibilities

Learn deeply about Fivetran in order to focus development on practical and relevant system improvements; Contribute to the development and planning of our 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 pull requests; Care and feel ownership of our product, and leverage your skills towards improving it

Requirements

experience working carefully with a high impact software team; humble enough to collect diverse input and build consensus; experienced and confident enough to be decisive when it is needed; practical enough to build and iterate on the system while it is in production; expertise and productivity with both modern and legacy software development environments; execution-oriented and understand the need to target your innovation budget for the greatest impact; know how to design and code systems and software that is effective, intuitive, easy-to-operate, and elegantly simple; have worked with the relevant tooling and techniques: cloud services, network protocols, serialization, relational databases, etc.; knowledge of complex structures, object orientation, exceptions, memory management techniques; C; Python; relational databases (Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server); make; GitHub Copilot; Claude Code; Jenkins; GCP; Azure; AWS; macOS/Linux/Unix/Windows; git

Nice to have

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

Benefits

100% employer-paid medical insurance*; Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays (including a year end Global Week of Rest), 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