Starburst

Senior Software Engineer, Context Layer

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2 months ago
Warsaw, PolandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate backend services that collect and reconcile business context from existing systems into governed Context Studio.
  • Build and evolve certification and versioning workflows for trusted metric and data definitions.
  • Develop APIs and MCP-based integrations for AI agents and BI tools.
  • Own service reliability and data consistency across information merged from multiple sources.
  • Partner with Product on feature definition and contribute to frontend, tooling, or other full-stack work when useful.
  • Work cross-functionally to deliver context-aware capabilities and review peer pull requests and design proposals.

Requirements

  • Extensive software development experience with Java and willingness to work across the full stack.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating distributed backend services in production.
  • Experience designing and operating REST APIs.
  • Experience modeling and serving graph-structured or richly relational data.
  • Experience integrating LLMs into backend systems through structured extraction, prompt-based enrichment, or output evaluation.
  • Comfort working in ambiguous, rapidly evolving product and architecture environments.
  • Hands-on production experience with agentic coding tools and appropriate testing, review, and verification guardrails.
  • Strong product thinking and demonstrated software engineering best practices.
  • Experience with data catalogs, semantic layers, or metadata/governance systems such as dbt or Collibra is a plus.

Benefits

  • The role is based in the Warsaw office with a hybrid schedule requiring onsite work 1–2 days per week.
  • The role requires approximately 25% in-person travel for onboarding, offsites, customer engagements, and other company events.
  • Benefits include flexible paid time off and a competitive total rewards program.
  • Starburst offers an inclusive, diverse work environment and equal employment opportunities.

Tech Stack

dbtJava

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About Starburst

501-1,000 employees

Starburst builds an enterprise data platform that lets teams query and govern distributed data across clouds and on‑prem systems without copying it, powered by Trino and Apache Iceberg. It sells commercial Trino-based software and a managed cloud service for federated SQL, data lakehouse analytics, and governance. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, the privately held company serves global enterprises; customers include Comcast and Citigroup.

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