Job Overview
Location
Novi Sad, South BaÄŤka, Serbia, EMEA
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Backend Engineer
Date Posted
March 19, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Senior C Programmer at Fivetran Inc. plays a critical role in building and maintaining the data pipeline infrastructure that enables thousands of companies to access reliable, analysis-ready data without engineering overhead—directly supporting Fivetran’s mission to make data access as simple and reliable as electricity.
- • Design, implement, and test high-performance C code for database connectors that extract data from relational databases and load it into cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift, ensuring correctness, scalability, and low latency in production environments.
- • Review and approve technical design documents and pull requests, enforcing code quality standards, identifying architectural improvements, and mentoring junior engineers to elevate team-wide technical excellence.
- • Take end-to-end ownership of database connector lifecycle—from requirements gathering and prototyping to implementation, testing, release, and post-deployment monitoring—iterating based on feedback from customer support, sales, and product teams.
- • Collaborate cross-functionally with sibling engineering teams, product managers, and customer-facing roles to align technical work with business goals, ensuring connectors meet enterprise-grade reliability and scalability demands.
- • Work within a hybrid model in Novi Sad, Serbia, contributing to a globally distributed engineering culture that values innovation, psychological safety, and continuous learning, while advancing expertise in systems programming, database internals, and cloud-native data infrastructure.
- • Develop deep expertise in relational database systems, including transaction logging, concurrency control, and call-level interfaces (ODBC/JDBC), while applying modern software engineering practices to legacy-performance-critical C codebases.
🎯 Requirements
- • Proven experience in C programming, including strong proficiency in pointers, memory management, structs, and low-level system interactions.
- • Hands-on experience with relational databases, SQL, and database connectivity interfaces (e.g., ODBC, JDBC, or native C APIs) for data extraction and replication.
- • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform for deploying and managing data pipeline components.
🏖️ Benefits
- • 100% employer-paid medical insurance for employees and dependents.
- • Generous paid time-off (PTO) policy, inclusive parental leave, sick leave, holidays, and volunteer days.
- • RSU stock grants, professional development stipend, monthly cell phone allowance, and access to an innovative mental health support platform with therapy, coaching, and mindfulness resources.
Skills & Technologies
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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