About Starburst
Starburst provides organizations with secure, governed access to data across distributed environments, helping enterprises power AI, analytics, and enterprise intelligence without traditional data consolidation. Its platform uses open standards including Trino and Apache Iceberg.
Responsibilities
•Design, develop, and maintain control plane services shared by Starburst Enterprise, Starburst Galaxy, and Trino
•Contribute to the Unified Control Plane by delivering capabilities such as access control, multi-cluster management, routing, catalog management, and observability as a single implementation for SaaS and self-managed deployments
•Own the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of services, including provisioning and upgrading APIs, cluster lifecycle management, and operational tooling
•Build software for both Starburst-operated services at scale and customer-operated deployments across AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premise, and air-gapped environments
•Review peers' pull requests and design proposals in a considerate and timely manner
•Improve engineering processes, tests, and systems to help the codebase and team productivity scale
•Collaborate with team members and other teams globally in a fast-paced environment
•Provide customer support to internal and external customers, and address reported problems seriously
•Periodically assist with the React- and TypeScript-based Portal UI
Requirements
•Prior experience developing distributed systems
•Extensive software development experience with Java
•Cloud infrastructure architecture and orchestration experience with at least one major cloud provider
•Experience building and operating backend services used by others, including APIs, control loops, and lifecycle management
•Hands-on use of AI coding tools and agents in day-to-day engineering, including shipping code and exercising sound judgment about their use
•Demonstrated experience with software engineering and design best practices
•Ability to create maintainable, performant, high-quality software as part of a high-performing, globally distributed team
•Intrinsic motivation to improve software engineering craftsmanship
•Comfort with significant autonomy and ownership
•Curiosity about other engineering teams' work and ability to connect ideas
•Demonstration of Ownership, Grit, and Bias for Action
Nice to have:
•Frontend development knowledge
Conditions
•Competitive pay, attractive stock grants, and flexible paid time off
•25% in-person travel for new-hire onboarding, team and department offsites, customer engagements, and other company events; actual travel expectations may vary by role and business needs
