Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate a high-quality data lake and the software systems that feed it.
- Develop production-grade services, APIs, tooling, automation, and integrations for data workflows at scale.
- Use Trino and Starburst to solve complex data management and software architecture challenges.
- Collaborate with technical leads, product managers, and data analysts to build data products and analytics.
- Build and maintain infrastructure that enables AI-driven dataset access, preparation, and model evaluation.
- Define engineering processes and best practices spanning software and data domains, emphasizing reliability and actionable results.
- Evolve data architecture and the software systems implementing it in collaboration with leaders across teams.
- Identify emerging data management and software engineering patterns and help bring relevant innovations to product teams.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of combined software engineering and/or data engineering experience, with depth in both areas.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and production experience with Java, Python, or Scala.
- Experience building and optimizing data pipelines with Trino, Spark, dbt, and related frameworks.
- Experience designing backend services, APIs, data platform components, and third-party API integrations.
- Experience managing infrastructure in public clouds, particularly AWS services including EMR, EC2, S3, and IAM; GCP or Azure experience is a plus.
- Experience with Apache Airflow or Dagster orchestration frameworks.
- Knowledge of RAG and other design patterns for AI-powered applications.
- Fluency in SQL and knowledge of data modeling for modern data lakes.
- Proficiency with Pulumi, Terraform, and/or Ansible for configuration and infrastructure as code.
- Track record of shipping reliable software and data systems with disciplined testing, code review, and quality practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication and ability to coordinate across teams.
- Willingness to travel approximately 25% in person.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Stock grants
- India-based role with 25% in-person travel, including onboarding, offsites, customer engagements, and company events
- Inclusive and diverse workplace culture
Tech Stack
About Starburst
Starburst was founded by the inventors of OS Trino so that data-driven companies could have a full-featured open data lakehouse platform powered by the #1 SQL analytics engine. Our end-to-end analytics platform includes the capabilities needed to discover, organize, consume, and share data with industry-leading price-performance for cloud and on-premises workloads. We believe the lakehouse should be the center of gravity, but support accessing data outside the lake when needed. With Starburst, teams can access more complete data, run scalable analytics, lower the cost of infrastructure, use tools best suited to their needs, and avoid vendor lock-in. Trusted by companies like Apache Corporation, Comcast, Doordash, DBS Bank, and VMware, Starburst helps you make better decisions faster on all data. Join us! -- Our company was founded in an unusual way; with customers and revenue from the beginning! Our growth is already ahead of some of the most successful software start-ups, and we don’t plan on slowing down. We believe our opportunity is huge. Every large company in the world suffers from a data silo problem. Traditional data warehouse products approach the problem with old solutions that breed inefficiency and ultimately can’t help business analysts run fast analytics on all their data. This prevents the business from making better decisions to improve their company’s performance. Starburst provides a modern solution that addresses these data silo & speed of access problems. Starburst helps enterprises harness the value of Trino, the fastest distributed query engine available today, by adding the tools and 24x7 support that meet the needs for big data access at scale. Ultimately, Starburst helps organizations run analytics anywhere to make better business decisions. We’re building a team of all-stars: engineers, customer success, sales, and marketing pros who are at the top of their game. If this sounds like you, check out our open roles: starburst.io/careers