Principal Software Engineer - Data Lakes

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Responsibilities

• ▹Partner closely with product teams to understand requirements and design new capabilities that go directly into customers' hands
• ▹Design, develop, implement and operate highly reliable large-scale data lake systems with a dedicated data lake engineering team
• ▹Contribute to open-source projects such as DuckDB and Polaris
• ▹Analyze and solve fault-tolerance, high availability, performance and scale challenges
• ▹Ensure operational excellence of the services regarding security, reliability, availability and performance
• ▹Set technical direction 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 and 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 innovative solutions
• ▹Excellent team player

Nice to have

• ▹MS or PhD in Computer Science, ideally focused on database management and/or storage engines

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹100% employer-paid medical insurance
• ▹Generous paid time off, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, holidays and volunteer days off
• ▹RSU stock grants
• ▹Professional development and training opportunities
• ▹Virtual happy hours, free food and team-building activities
• ▹Monthly cell phone stipend
• ▹Mental health support platform with therapy, coaching and mindfulness exercises

About the company

Fivetran's mission is to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity: customer data arrives in warehouses canonical and ready to query. The company is joining forces with dbt Labs to deliver the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform and trust their data.