5 months ago
Warsaw, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own critical backend and platform components that orchestrate Spark and Trino distributed compute for enterprise customers.
- Lead the design and implementation of JVM-based services and surrounding infrastructure.
- Design Kubernetes deployments, Docker image strategies, CI/CD automation, AWS integrations, and secure enterprise authentication flows.
- Provide architectural leadership, cross-team influence, and long-term ownership of platform health.
- Drive RFCs, improve engineering standards, conduct code reviews, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional backend experience with strong Java expertise and production experience building JVM-based services.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production; Spark, Trino, Presto, or comparable distributed compute experience is a strong plus.
- Extensive experience designing and evolving RESTful APIs, including validation, error modeling, pagination, filtering, backward-compatible versioning, and OpenAPI documentation.
- Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, including authoring manifests or Helm charts, and strong Docker experience.
- Experience owning CI/CD for complex Java codebases using GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
- Practical AWS experience with S3 or compatible object storage, IAM roles and policies, and AWS SSO.
- Familiarity with OAuth2, OIDC, token-based authentication, and session management.
- Experience with Prometheus metrics, OpenTelemetry distributed tracing, and structured logging is a plus.
- Proven ability to lead architecture across multiple services or systems, drive cross-team RFCs, influence engineering standards, mentor engineers, and own long-term platform health.
- Highly preferred: job orchestration platform experience, enterprise or B2B experience, strong Python skills for automation and tooling, hybrid or on-premises systems experience, and open-source collaboration.
- Ability to travel approximately 25% in person.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in the Warsaw office with an expectation of being onsite 2–3 days per week.
- 25% in-person travel may be required for onboarding, offsites, customer engagements, and company events.
- Competitive pay, stock grants, flexible paid time off, and additional benefits.
Tech Stack
About Starburst
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.