Manager of Performance Engineering, Fivetran

$203.4-254.2k

SQL
Oracle
DynamoDB
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Oakland, CA

Fivetran

Data integration solutions

Job no longer available

Fivetran

Data integration solutions

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataAnalytics

Job no longer available

$203.4-254.2k

SQL
Oracle
DynamoDB
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Oakland, CA

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseBig dataAnalytics

Company mission

Fivetran's mission is to solve the hardest part of building a data-driven company: centralising all your data in one place.

Role

Who you are

  • Experience in building and managing an engineering team of 5 or more members comprising individual contributors with varying experience levels
  • Experience in performance engineering. This can include writing C code to bridge performance gaps, JVM tuning, massive parallelization, profiling, and many other performance engineering techniques
  • Believer in a data-driven approach in strategizing, prioritizing, and driving implementation changes, coordinating with Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Support
  • Proven people management and career development skills
  • Adept at auditing and improving coding practices across the team, ensuring integrity and transparency
  • Ability to collaborate and articulate effectively with technical founders and non-engineering stakeholders
  • A high degree of confidence and level of comfort in discussing low level technical issues, such as CPU utilization and memory management
  • Ability to closely monitor or even complete the hands-on work of senior engineers on the team
  • At least 3+ years of experience working in engineering manager roles

Desirable

  • Experience in building data pipelines or data processing platforms
  • Experience with Enterprise-class databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2)
  • Experience with high scale databases (Spanner, CosmosDB, DynamoDB, Mongo)

What the job involves

  • Fivetran is looking for an Engineering Manager to join our platform engineering group
  • In the next few years, you will own and drive the vision, and implementation to drive our 10x growth from 2,500+ customers to 25,000+ customers
  • If you love the idea of owning the critical services and implementation for operating the best-in-class reliable, secure, and scalable data movement platform, you should talk to us
  • As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers, and coordinate with other stakeholders at the company, including other engineering teams, product management, support engineers, and sales engineers
  • You will take full responsibility for the quality, efficiency, and reliability of your focus areas; and you will build and maintain a team that reliably delivers excellent results while maintaining a culture of engagement, fairness, and continuous improvement
  • Lastly, being an engineer at heart, you are also passionate about building strong relationships across the engineering team to communicate, drive and implement Fivetran’s product needs

Our take

After a few slower years since graduating from Y Combinator in 2013, Fivetran has skyrocketed, consistently raising large sums of funding, including an Andreessen Horowitz-backed $565m Series D round in 2021.

Customers are mostly data analysts at companies with inefficient database schema, who suffer from a high risk of project failures. Fivetran offers rapid integration of complex data services into cloud warehouses, tagging onto the trend towards cloud-based data systems.

By developing and continuously improving cloud applications that adapt to changing APIs and data schemas, Fivetran is attracting customers who seek long-term data viability. Fivetran also benefits from being easy to set up and integrate into a client's existing software.

After acquiring HVR, a data integration competitor, and Teleport Data, Fivetran continues to add functionality and customers via acquisition. A round of funding in 2023 paved the way for expansion into European and Asian markets.

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Insights

Top investors

Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-2% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Sep 2021

$565m

SERIES D

Jun 2020

$100m

SERIES C

Total funding: $727.6m

Company benefits

  • 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance. Benefits begin on your first day!
  • Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time, holidays, parental leave, and volunteer days off
  • 401k match program
  • Eligible donation match program
  • Monthly cell phone stipend
  • Work-from-home equipment reimbursement for your home office setup!
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team building activities
  • Commuter benefits to help with transit and parking costs
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Referral Bonuses
  • Stock equity -- every employee is granted stock options when they walk in the door
  • Annual Camp Fivetran trip that brings together every employee from around the world

Company values

  • Preserve your integrity, even when it's hard
  • Take the initiative
  • Trust each other
  • Nurture diversity, equality and inclusiveness
  • Lead, don't follow
  • One team, one dream

Company HQ

Downtown, Oakland, CA

Leadership

PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh

Studied Business Administration (focusing on design strategy) at California College of the Arts to Masters level

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