Software Engineer II - Oracle Databases

About the Role

Fivetran is looking for a passionate and experienced Software Engineer to join our fast-growing team in Novi Sad. As part of the Oracle Connector Team, you'll help build robust, high-performance data pipelines that power analytics for hundreds of customers including some of the largest Oracle clusters in the world.

You’ll play a key role in developing new features, improving our software architecture, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of our services. We're looking for someone who is excited to dive deep into data replication, tackle complex technical challenges, and contribute to building the best-in-class ELT solution for Oracle systems.

Fivetran is the epitome of data-driven-development — our engineering team is focused on building a world class product that:

• Facilitates Data Analytics — join our mission to reliably deliver best-in class schemas, and clean data, designed to be intuitively useful to analysts.


• Contributes to our Community — help develop tools like Data Lakes, SQL-based Transformations, and schema explorers to empower analysts to choose the best tools, and to make those tools more powerful.


• Is Absolutely Dependable — work to make Fivetran the most reliable and secure component of our customers’ data infrastructure.

We emphasize using no-nonsense tools, and take great pride in the simplicity and effectiveness of the systems we build. Our back-end is built on Java, C, Postgres, and Kubernetes, and our front-end is built on React and Typescript.

This is a full-time hybrid role based in our Novi Sad, Serbia office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.

Technologies You’ll Use

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  C, Java, SQL Server, SQL, Docker, AWS, GCP, BuildKite, DBeaver, Grafana

  
  

What You’ll Do

• Dive deep into data replication debugging, analyzing existing code that is in use by hundreds of customers today. Some clients are operating the largest Oracle clusters in the world.


• Analyze new features that are introduced by Oracle in recent releases and determine how to develop supporting features.


• Contribute to the efforts to the maintenance and improvement of existing connectors; call for improvement in all areas of Fivetran's codebase and infrastructure.


• Be a part of the process to move a high performance client side service to the cloud and operate at scale.


• Develop software designs and technical roadmap for the team.


• Contribute to hiring by participating in the interview process.

Skills We’re Looking For

• Code:
  
  
  
  • 5 years programming in C languages
  
  
  • Writes well-structured and performant code
  
  
  • Be able to dive into code that has been previously written and suggest improvements
  
  
  
  


• Troubleshoot:
  
  
  
  • 2+ years of experience on-call or supporting customer with live production system
  
  
  • Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems
  
  
  
  


• Design:
  
  
  
  • Understand and can explain how to build high performance systems and processes
  
  
  • Have an analytical mindset that helps you identify design flaws in existing systems and come up with improvements
  
  
  
  


• System: 
  
  
  
  • 2+ years of of working in a cloud environment utilizing AWS, GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, or similar technologie
  
  
  
  


• Project management: 
  
  
  
  • Experience working on requirements with product personnel refine requirements for technical projects.
  
  
  • Experience breaking down requirements into engineering tasks
  
  
  
  


• Collaboration:
  
  
  
  • Experience working in large distributed teams
  
  
  • Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers
  
  
  
  

Bonus Skills

• Working experience with database internals such as storage format, compression techniques, encryption, disaster recovery, transaction management, or high availability.


• Working experience in designing and developing file, event, application, or database connectors.


• Working experience with advanced Java development such as multi-threads, multi-tasking, different asynchronous programming mechanisms, garbage collector tuning, etc.


• Working experience setting up, maintaining and tuning production Oracle RDBMS.

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