Senior Data Engineer
•Missionlane· 3h
🏷️ Data Science📝 Contract⭐ Senior🇺🇸 USA
3h ago
Fivetran·about 6 hours ago
From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About the Senior Staff Software Engineer Role
As a part of the Destinations Team, you will be responsible to help build new features of our data pipeline service, help improve our software architecture, and maintain reliable operation of the service. We're looking for someone who wants to learn and apply the key values that make our product great, dive deep into complex investigations into SQL compilers and execution engines. Fivetran is the epitome of data-driven-development — our engineering team is focused on building a world class product that:
Facilitates Data Analytics — join our mission to reliably deliver best-in class schemas, and clean data, designed to be intuitively useful to analysts.
Contributes to our Community — help develop tools like Data Lakes, SQL-based Transformations, and schema explorers to empower analysts to choose the best tools, and to make those tools more powerful.
Is Absolutely Dependable — work to make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure.
We emphasize using no-nonsense tools, and take great pride in the simplicity and effectiveness of the systems we build. Our back-end is built on Java, C, Postgres, and Kubernetes, and our front-end is built on React and Typescript.
This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of our Toronto 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. 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
Python, SQL, Java, Docker, AWS, GCP, BuildKite, C++, Grafana
What You’ll Do
Develop open source technologies like SQLGlot and Duckdb.
Research and implement new SQL optimization techniques.
Develop high performance C++ to process data.
Develop software designs and technical roadmap for the team.
Contribute to hiring by participating in the interview process.
Skills We’re Looking For
Code: 5 years programming in Python. Writes well-structured and performant code Be able to dive into code that has been previously written and suggest improvements
Troubleshoot: 2+ years of experience on-call or supporting customer with live production system Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems
Design: Understand and can explain how to build high performance systems and processes Have an analytical mindset that helps you identify design flaws in existing systems and come up with improvements
System: 2+ years of of working in a cloud environment utilizing AWS, GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, or similar technologies
Project management: Experience working on requirements with product personnel refine requirements for technical projects. Experience breaking down requirements into engineering tasks
Collaboration: Experience working in large distributed teams Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers
Bonus Skills
Working experience with database internals such as storage format, compression techniques, encryption, disaster recovery, transaction management, or high availability.
Working experience in designing and developing file, event, application, or database connectors.
Working experience with advanced Java development such as multi-threads, multi-tasking, different asynchronous programming mechanisms, garbage collector tuning, etc.
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Perks and Benefits
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We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
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