Job brief: Staff Software Engineer

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Fivetran's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-06 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-08.
• The apply link opens fivetran.com, the address Fivetran's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: Not published
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Remote, New York, United States, AMER · USA - Remote - NY
• Posted: 2026-11-05

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required.
• *THIS MUST BE FILLED OUT PRIOR TO SUBMITTING. Please do not change the headers for each section below.**
• Strong coding skills (10+ years) in at least one of the following technologies: Rust, Python, Go or Java.
• Experience working on non-trivial projects (coursework, internships, research, open-source, personal projects) that required persistence and iteration.

Conditions

• Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holida…

Main duties

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Operations, and Security to deliver well-architected, scalable compute solutions.
• Participate in technical architecture discussions with a focus on query engines, storage systems, and distributed database design.
• Build services, APIs, and experiences that support user delight, quality, high availability, and performance.
• Drive best practices in testing, observability, and system reliability.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs across the U.S.: $187k a year (1,113 listings, 67 employers). This listing does not publish pay to compare.
• Across Fivetran's 109 open listings, 33% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Fivetran hires

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