Principal Software Engineer

Fivetran Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, APAC

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a Principal Software Engineer at Fivetran, you will serve as the chief architect for the global connector group, playing a pivotal role in ensuring that customer data flows reliably and efficiently into data warehouses—making data access as simple and dependable as electricity for organizations worldwide.
• You will lead high-impact initiatives to optimize and accelerate Fivetran’s SaaS connectors, driving engineering excellence through architectural design, performance tuning, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, production-ready features that uphold the company’s core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream.
• You will join a fast-growing, globally distributed engineering team in Bengaluru operating under a hybrid work model (two days in-office per week), contributing to a culture of innovation, mentorship, and technical excellence while working alongside senior engineers and the Office of the CTO as part of the architecture guild.
• In this role, you will deepen your expertise in large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP/Azure), and data pipeline optimization while mentoring senior/staff engineers, influencing hiring practices, and shaping engineering systems, documentation, and development processes across multiple geographies.
• Serve as the chief architect for the global connector group.
• Take ownership and lead initiatives to make our SaaS connectors the fastest in the industry, focusing on performance and optimization.
• Drive engineering excellence through architecture design and reviews for data pipeline service projects and features.
• Lead engineering-wide initiatives across several key technologies.
• Collaborate actively with the Office of the CTO as a member of our architecture guild.
• Work closely with other principal engineers across multiple development locations.
• Contribute as an active engineering team member to deliver robust, scalable features.
• Enhance engineering systems, documentation, and development processes.
• Coach and mentor senior/staff engineers, fostering a culture of growth and excellence.
• Support hiring efforts by participating in the interview process.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of professional experience in designing and delivering large-scale, enterprise-level software products.
• Extensive experience as an architect or principal level engineer, with a collaborative yet decisive leadership style that drives change effectively.
• Proven ability to lead and deliver large-scale architectural projects with a strong focus on achieving results.
• Thrives in collaborative settings with both technical (engineers, leads) and non-technical (product managers, analysts) team members to develop complex, system-level features.
• Strong interpersonal skills and adaptability to engage effectively across all levels, from hands-on work with engineers to high-level collaboration with the CTO.
• Extensive back-end development experience, ideally for customer-facing products.
• Skilled in writing well-structured, efficient code and adept in designing, building, maintaining, testing, and deploying software.
• Experienced in developing concepts, building proofs-of-concept (POCs), and bringing projects to production-ready status.
• Proficient in end-to-end system profiling, performance tuning, and optimization.
• Experienced in cloud environment architectures, utilizing technologies such as AWS, GCP, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, and CircleCI.
• Hands-on experience with data pipelines and relational databases, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or MySQL.

🏖️ 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.

Skills & Technologies

Java

PostgreSQL

MySQL

AWS

Azure

Senior

Remote

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About Fivetran Inc.

Fivetran Inc. provides automated data integration software that replicates application, database, and event data into cloud data warehouses. It manages schema drift, incremental updates, and normalization, enabling analysts to query live data without engineering overhead. The company serves enterprises needing reliable, governed data pipelines across systems like Salesforce, MySQL, and Snowflake. Founded in 2012, it is headquartered in Oakland, California, with global offices, and operates on a subscription revenue model.

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