2 months ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$185k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain connectors in Open Source Trino, Starburst Enterprise Platform, and Starburst Galaxy.
- Develop innovative ways to accelerate complex queries without sacrificing result correctness.
- Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams in a focused, fast-paced environment.
- Participate in coding, pull-request reviews, and design documentation.
- Provide exceptional support to internal and external customers using the query engine.
Requirements
- Prior experience developing distributed systems.
- Extensive software development experience with Java.
- Demonstrated experience with software engineering and design best practices.
- Ability to create maintainable, performant, high-quality software in a globally distributed engineering team.
- Significant autonomy and ownership, with strong software engineering craftsmanship.
- Ability to communicate ideas clearly in writing through Slack, GitHub pull requests, and design documents.
- Ability to travel approximately 25% for onboarding, offsites, customer engagements, and company events.
- Experience with query engines, storage and compute separation, data engineering, Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hive table format synchronization, or large-scale open-source software is a plus.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in the Boston office with an expectation of being onsite 1–2 days per week
- 25% in-person travel for onboarding, offsites, customer engagements, and company events
- Equity grants (NSOs) for full-time employees
- Competitive pay, stock grants, flexible paid time off, and additional employer-sponsored benefits depending on country
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.