Starburst-posted about 1 month ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • Boston, MA

Starburst is the data platform for analytics, applications, and AI, unifying data across clouds and on-premises to accelerate AI innovation. Organizations—from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises in 60+ countries—rely on Starburst for fast data access, seamless collaboration, and enterprise-grade governance on an open hybrid data lakehouse. Wherever data lives, Starburst unlocks its full potential, powering data and AI from development to deployment. By future-proofing data architecture, Starburst helps businesses fuel innovation with AI. About the role: Starburst is looking for a Software Engineer to work with our globally distributed engineering team on Starburst's industry-leading data ingestion and transformation platform. In this role, you'll contribute directly to the evolution of Starburst, tackling complex challenges across our managed SaaS, open source, and proprietary offerings - an ideal environment for learning and innovation. As a Software Engineer on our Icehouse team, you'll build highly scalable systems for ingesting and transforming data on Starburst's open data lakehouse. This is a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of data systems built around the open source distributed query engine Trino, and Apache Iceberg.

  • Design, develop and operate systems and features relating to data ingestion and transformation.
  • You'll build on our systems which have proven ingestion up to 100GB/second .
  • Work cross functionally to ensure the best experience for our customers.
  • Build and implement features for creating and operating data lakes based on Apache Iceberg, such as streaming ingestion from Apache Kafka and Kafka-compatible systems; file ingestion from cloud object storage such as Amazon S3; data transformations; and automated scalable data maintenance.
  • Provide considerate and timely review of your peers' design proposals pull requests.
  • Help to build a highly effective culture across Starburst and your team.
  • 3+ years of experience developing software
  • Prior experience developing distributed systems
  • Extensive software development experience with Java. Experience with other systems programming languages (Rust, C++, Go, etc) can be considered.
  • Demonstrated experience with software engineering and design best practices
  • Demonstration of ownership, grit, and bias for action - core values at Starburst
  • Prior experience with software development using Trino, Apache Iceberg, Apache Kafka, or cloud object storage a huge plus
  • All employees receive equity packages (ISOs) and have access to a comprehensive benefits offering.
  • competitive pay
  • attractive stock grants
  • flexible paid time off
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