Starburst
enterprise intelligence
SeniorSoftwareEngineer
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“Senior Software Engineer at Starburst. Skills: reliability, scalability, efficiency, infrastructure. Develop and optimize the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of Starburst Galaxy service. Design and build the core operational infrastructure of the Starburst Galaxy service following the immutable cloud infrastructure paradigm”
What You'll Achieve.
grow; meet the demands of our customers; scale the code base and productivity of the team
Industry & Context.
Ability to Travel: This role will require occasional in-person travel for purposes including but not limited to new hire onboarding, team and department offsites, customer engagements, and other company events. Actual travel expectations may vary by role and business needs.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Passion for software engineering, an interest in Infrastructure Engineering in particular, Cloud infrastructure architecture and orchestration experience, Experience developing software in Java and Typescript, Experience with infrastructure as code and related tooling such as Pulumi or Terraform, Demonstration of ownership, grit, and bias for action
Nice to Have
Prior experience in developing for or operating Trino is a huge plus
What You'll Do.
Develop and optimize the reliability
and efficiency of Starburst Galaxy service
Design and build the core operational infrastructure of the Starburst Galaxy service following the immutable cloud infrastructure paradigm
Continuously improve our engineering processes
and systems that allow us to scale the code base and productivity of the team
Provide considerate and timely review of your peers' pull requests and design proposals
scalability and efficiency (performance/$) of Starburst Galaxy IaaS/SaaS
help design and build core infrastructure around Trino of the Galaxy Product itself
build “the machine that builds the machine” that is used to operate our SaaS at scale
developing the backend infrastructure related to product features
building operational tooling
supporting our product in production
driving collaboration with various stakeholders around the reliability
scalability and efficiency of Starburst Galaxy
ensure the reliability and scalability of the Starburst Galaxy infrastructure
own the apis for provisioning and upgrading cloud infrastructure across AWS
enable the engineering organization to iterate on Galaxy confidently with maximum velocity
and minimum disruption
own everything from continuous delivery to the tooling to provision and maintain developer environments
provide comprehensive tooling
and the underlying infrastructure primitives
for the introspection and administration of the Starburst Galaxy product
modifying both Trino and Starburst Galaxy services to maximize introspection
owning infrastructure that ensures that relevant data is surfaced in an accessible way to both internal and external customers
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
driving collaboration with various stakeholders; Provide considerate and timely review of your peers' pull requests and design proposals
Full Job Description
About Starburst Starburst delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by giving organizations secure, governed access to all their data, wherever it lives. Built for distributed data environments, Starburst helps enterprises power AI and analytics without the cost and complexity of traditional data consolidation. With open standards including Trino and Apache Iceberg, Starburst enables trusted access to complete enterprise context while helping organizations avoid vendor lock-in. Leading global enterprises trust Starburst to fuel AI, analytics, and enterprise intelligence. Learn more at starburst.ai. About the role: As a Senior Software Engineer on the fully distributed Starburst Galaxy Reliability, Scalability, & Efficiency team, you’ll own the reliability, scalability and efficiency (performance/$) of Starburst Galaxy IaaS/SaaS as we grow. You will help design and build core infrastructure around Trino of the Galaxy Product itself, as well as build “the machine that builds the machine” that is used to operate our SaaS at scale. Daily tasks will include developing the backend infrastructure related to product features, building operational tooling, supporting our product in production, and driving collaboration with various stakeholders around the reliability, scalability and efficiency of Starburst Galaxy. On the Core Infrastructure team, you will ensure the reliability and scalability of the Starburst Galaxy infrastructure as we grow to meet the demands of our customers. You’ll own the apis for provisioning and upgrading cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure & GCP. On the Delivery & Enablement team, you will enable the engineering organization to iterate on Galaxy confidently with maximum velocity, and minimum disruption. You’ll own everything from continuous delivery to the tooling to provision and maintain developer environments. On the Observability team, you will provide comprehensive tooling, and the underlying infrastructure primitives, for the introspection
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