Staff DevOps Engineer

Fivetran
Novi Sad; South Bačka; EMEA, RS
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-level DevOps engineers with 7+ years of SaaS platform experience who are comfortable with managed Kubernetes and cloud platforms.

Best fit for

  • Experienced SREs who prioritize infrastructure reliability and incident response.
    — “take ownership of the overall performance and reliability of Fivetran’s infrastructure
  • Engineers proficient in Python, Go, and shell scripting with cloud platform expertise.
    — “Experience in Python, Shell scripting, and Go. Bonus if you have Java
  • Candidates with hands-on experience in cloud networking and database management.
    — “Experience with cloud networking like Managed NAT Gateways, VPNs, Privatelinks

Things to consider

  • Requires collaboration with multiple teams including engineering and support.
    — “working closely with engineering teams, product managers, and support and sales engineers

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate past success in automating scalable deployments.
    — “implement automation for scalable deployments
  • Highlight experience with incident response and issue avoidance.
    — “driving effective incident response and overall issue avoidance
  • Showcase expertise in managed Kubernetes across multiple cloud providers.
    — “Expertise in managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, and GKE)
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • implement reliability and robustness of production infrastructure
  • collaborate with engineering teams to integrate reliability best practices
  • support critical bug resolution
Typical background
DevOps engineerSite Reliability Engineer

Skills & requirements

Required

KubernetesGCPAWSAzureTerraformPythonGoBash/shell ScriptingLinux

Preferred

JavaPostgreSQL

Stack & domain

KubernetesGCPAWSAzureTemporal Cloud PlatformArgocdTerraformPulumiGrafanaBuildkitePostgreSQLPythonGoJavaBash/shell ScriptingLinuxCloud NetworkingManaged Nat GatewaysVpnsPrivatelinksPrivate Service ConnectDatabasesCollaborationProblem-solvingTeamworkOwnershipAccountabilityBias Toward ActionCuriosityHands-on With New TechShowing WorkFounder MindsetHigh-autonomy EnvironmentDevOpsCloud PlatformsInfrastructureSite Reliability EngineeringAutomation

About the role

Original posting from Fivetran

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 join a team of Site Reliability Engineers. You will be working closely with engineering teams, product managers, and support and sales engineers to build the future of Fivetran Data Platform Reliability. 

As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, you will take ownership of the overall performance and reliability of Fivetran’s infrastructure, the robustness of the deployment pipeline, as well as timely and effective incident response and resolution. You will take responsibility for the growth and stability of Fivetran’s infrastructure, and be a key player driving effective incident response and overall issue avoidance. 

Technologies You’ll Use

Managed Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Azure Cloud platforms, and Temporal Cloud platform

ArgoCD, Terraform, Pulumi, Grafana, Buildkite, PostgreSQL

Python, Go, Java, Bash/Shell Scripting

 

What You’ll Do

Responsible for the ongoing reliability and robustness of Fivetran’s production infrastructure by monitoring availability, capacity, and throughput.

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 the high reliability and availability of production infrastructure by collaborating with engineering to implement automation for scalable deployments

Ensure scalable artifacts deployment to all environments through automation scripts

Proactively monitor infrastructure vulnerabilities and collaborate with the security team to promptly address them.

 

Skills We’re Looking For

7+  years of  experience working with SaaS platforms at scale 

Expertise in managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, and GKE)

Knowledge of Cloud Platforms and related tooling: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Buildkite, Pulumi, and ArgoCD

Experience in Python, Shell scripting, and Go. Bonus if you have Java

Experience with Linux operating systems, internals, and administration 

Experience with cloud networking like Managed NAT Gateways, VPNs, Privatelinks, and Private Service Connect (GCP)

Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL

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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

Click here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.

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.

To learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.

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Source: Fivetran careers

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