5 days ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services that collect and reconcile business context from existing systems into governed Context Studio.
- Develop certification and versioning workflows for trusted metric and data definitions.
- Build APIs and MCP-based integrations for AI agents and BI tools to query certified context.
- Own service reliability and data consistency when merging information from multiple sources.
- Partner with product on feature direction and contribute to frontend, tooling, or other full-stack work when needed.
- Collaborate across platform teams to deliver context-aware capabilities.
- Review peer pull requests and design proposals.
Requirements
- Extensive software development experience with Java and willingness to work across backend, frontend, tooling, and infrastructure as needed.
- 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 environments where architecture is still being defined.
- Hands-on production experience with agentic coding tools and the judgment to apply testing, review, and verification guardrails.
- Demonstrated software engineering best practices.
- Experience with data catalogs, semantic layers, or metadata/governance systems such as dbt or Collibra is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement based in Boston, MA or remote within the United States.
- Approximately 25% in-person travel may be required for onboarding, offsites, customer engagements, and company events.
- Employees receive equity packages in the form of ISOs.
- Benefits include flexible paid time off and a comprehensive Total Rewards program.
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.