Staff Software Engineer
Starburst
IndiaPosted 19 days ago
Skill Required
EngineeringSoftware EngineerSoftware Developersoftware engineeringdata engineeringDesign PatternsAirflowR ProgrammingautomationTerraformdesigninganalyticsbuildingAnsiblewrittenTestNGAzurePythondesignScalaSparkCloudRustJavaAPIsRAGdbt
Key highlights
- Staff Software Engineer role
- 7+ years of combined software/data engineering experience required
- 25% travel required
- Competitive pay and stock grants
- Flexible paid time off
- Based in India
Role overview
Starburst delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by providing secure, governed access to distributed data, enabling AI and analytics without traditional data consolidation. The company seeks an experienced Staff Software Engineer to build internal platforms, pipelines, and data products that power customer and business insights. This role bridges software and data engineering, using Starburst’s own technology (Trino, Apache Iceberg) to solve real-world problems at scale while contributing to software relied upon by other teams. The engineer will collaborate with global teams to develop high-quality, maintainable systems that drive reliability and actionable results, with a unique perspective as both a user and builder of Starburst’s products.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate a high-quality data lake and the software systems that feed it, supporting product management, finance, customer support, and engineering
- Write production-grade software — services, APIs, tooling, and automation — that enables data workflows and integrations at scale
- Find innovative ways to use Trino and Starburst to solve complex data management and software architecture challenges
- Collaborate with technical leads, product managers, and data analysts to build robust data products and analytics
- Leverage AI to democratize access to datasets for users throughout Starburst, including building and maintaining the software infrastructure that makes this possible
- Enable dataset preparation and model evaluation for Starburst's AI projects
- Define and evolve engineering processes and best practices that span both software and data domains, with a focus on reliability and actionable results
- Work closely with leaders across teams to iterate on data architecture and the software systems that implement it, keeping quality high at every layer
- Identify emerging patterns in data management and software engineering, and work with Starburst's product teams to bring those innovations to market
Requirements
- At least 7 years of combined experience in software engineering and/or data engineering, with genuine depth in both
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: writing clean, testable, well-reviewed code in Java, Python, or Scala
- Experience building and optimizing data pipelines using Trino, Spark, dbt, and related frameworks
- Experience designing and building backend services, APIs, and data platform components
- Experience managing data and application infrastructure in public clouds, particularly AWS (EMR, EC2, S3, IAM)
- Experience using and managing orchestration frameworks such as Apache Airflow or Dagster
- Fluency in SQL and comfort moving between SQL and general-purpose programming as the task demands
- Experience building API integrations for extracting data from third-party sources
- Knowledge of data modeling techniques appropriate for modern data lakes
- A track record of shipping reliable software and data systems on time, with disciplined practices around testing, code quality, and review
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the organizational ability to coordinate across teams
- Ability to Travel: This role will require 25% 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.
Nice to have
- A Trino enthusiast looking to push the bounds in an AI future
- Knowledge of RAG and other design patterns for AI-powered applications
- Proficiency with Configuration-as-Code and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Pulumi, Terraform, and/or Ansible
- Multi-cloud experience (GCP/Azure)
Benefits
- Competitive Total Rewards program
- Competitive pay
- Attractive stock grants
- Flexible paid time off
Additional details
- 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.
- Build your career at Starburst: All-Stars have the opportunity and freedom to realize their true potential. By building alongside top talent, we’re empowered to take ownership of our careers and drive meaningful change. Anchored in industry-proven technology and unprecedented success, All-Stars are taking on the challenge everyday to disrupt our industry – and the future.
- Our global workforce is supported by a variety of benefits like competitive pay, attractive stock grants, flexible paid time off, and more.
- We are committed to fostering an intentional, inclusive, and diverse culture that drives deep engagement, authentic belonging, and an exceptional All-Star experience. We believe that diversity of thought, perspective, background and experience will enable us to own what we do, drive our success and empower our All-Stars to show up authentically.
- Starburst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
- Where could this role be based? India