Site Reliability Engineer

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About the Role

Fivetran is looking for a high-performance engineer to be a part of a team of Site Reliability Engineers. You will be working closely with engineering teams, product managers, as well as support and sales engineers to build the future of the Fivetran Data Platform Reliability. 

As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, you will contribute to overall performance and reliability of Fivetran’s infrastructure by monitoring, alerting and initial incident response. You will support the deployment pipeline by working alongside senior SREs. You will gain valuable experience in effective incident response and issue avoidance, becoming a key player in Fivetran’s growing SRE team..

• Responsible for monitoring the availability, capacity, and throughput of Fivetran's production infrastructure to identify and address potential issues.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate reliability best practices into the product roadmap
• Support the prioritization and resolution of critical bugs identified by support or sales.
• Contribute to maintaining 100% availability of production infrastructure by collaborating with engineering to implement automation for scalable deployments
• Proactively monitor infrastructure vulnerabilities and collaborate with the security team to address them in a timely manner.

This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of our Oakland 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.

Outcomes:

By month 1

• Ramp up with Fivetran technology stack and architecture
• Develop general awareness of all areas of Fivetran's codebase and infrastructure
• Start monitoring the Fivetran platform
• Start contributing to incident post-mortems

By month 2

• Deliver the task that is being assigned

By month 6

• Deliver the project tasks that is being assigned

Competencies:

• 5+  years of  experience working with SaaS products at scale 
• Working experience  of Kubernetes administration
• Knowledge of Cloud Platforms and related tooling: AWS, GCP, Terraform, configuration management
• Experience in Python/Shell scripting. Bonus if you have Java also
• Experience with Linux operating systems internals and administration
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL

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The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role.  Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The compensation range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your location during the hiring process.

Oakland Pay Range

$166,585.93—$199,911.11 USD

Perks and 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.

*****May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information

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We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.     

Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.

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