Principal Software Engineer - Data Lakes

About The Role

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. We're seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical architecture, design, and development of Fivetran’s Data Lake product offering. Our Data Lake architecture ensures our customers have queryable data without any transformations. We strive to continuously improve our Data Lake solution for scalability, better performance, and ease of customer use.

This full-time position is based out of our Amsterdam office in the Netherlands.

Technologies You’ll Use

• Java, C++, Postgres, Temporal, gRPC
• AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, New Relic
• Iceberg, Delta Lake, Parquet, DuckDB

What You’ll Do

• 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.
• 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.

Skills We’re Looking For

• 5+ 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.
• Strongly prefer an MS or PhD in Computer Science, ideally focusing on database management and/or storage engines.

Perks And 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.

*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information

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.