Fivetran
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
$196K–$245K
Oakland, California, United States +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- Oakland, California, United States
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About the job
Integrate data activation capabilities into Fivetran’s product and lead backend engineering for its Reverse ETL product.
What you'll do
- Build, deploy, and maintain features across the tech stack, working with product, leaders, and customers on data activation.
- Lead major projects from research and design through implementation and rollout.
- Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and provide project-level leadership across teams.
What they ask for
- Expertise in at least one interpreted language and hands-on experience with at least one compiled language.
- Solid understanding of relational databases and proven experience with system integration, including API consumption and development.
- Familiarity with a leading cloud provider and experience being on-call.
- Able to work in the Toronto or Oakland office two days per week.
Nice to have
- Experience with data warehousing solutions such as Snowflake.
- Experience with infrastructure management.
Pay
$196,033 — $245,041.50 USD (base salary)
Tools
Ruby on Rails, Typescript, Vue, AWS, Python, C++, Kotlin, Scala
AI focus
The role supports data infrastructure used by analytics and AI systems; no specific AI development work is described.
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