Principal Software Engineer - Data Lakes

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About Us<br></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.<br>Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on.<br>Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.<br>As we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.<br>During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We’re seeking a Principal Software Engineer to contribute to the technical architecture, design and development of Fivetran’s Managed Data Lake product offering. As part of a senior engineering team, you’ll partner with product and engineering teams to build scalable, high-performance systems, advance open-source technologies, and set technical standards that raise the bar across the organization.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This is a full-time remote position based out of Germany.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Technologies You’ll Use</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Java, C++, Postgres, Temporal, gRPC</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Grafana</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Iceberg, Polaris, Delta Lake, Parquet, DuckDB</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Partner closely with product teams to understand requirements and design cutting-edge new capabilities that go directly into customer’s hands.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Design, develop, implement, and operate highly reliable large-scale data lake systems in cooperation with a dedicated data lake engineering team.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Contribute to open-source projects such as DuckDB and Polaris.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Embrace Fivetran innovations with open-source standards and toolsets.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ensure operational excellence of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding security, reliability, availability, and performance.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Set technical directions and influence cross-functional teams.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Skills We’re Looking For</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">6+ years of hands-on or research experience with high-performance relational data management systems.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Deep understanding of infrastructure &amp; software optimizations and performance engineering to drive significant performance, latency, and availability improvements.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complicated projects.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong development skills in Java and C++.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Solid experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrated knowledge of columnar storage formats.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Growth mindset and excitement about breaking the status quo by seeking innovative solutions.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Excellent team player who is consistent in making everyone around you better.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Bonus Skills</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strongly prefer an MS or PhD in Computer Science, ideally focusing on database management and/or storage engines.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">#LI-IM1</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">#LI-REMOTE</span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="p-rich_text_section" style="line-height: 1.3;"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Perks and Benefits</strong></p> <ul> <li>100% employer-paid medical insurance<strong>*</strong></li> <li>Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plu