Starburst

Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane

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2 months ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$185k - $215k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain control plane services shared by Starburst Enterprise, Starburst Galaxy, and Trino.
  • Build a unified implementation for access control, multi-cluster management, routing, catalog management, and observability across SaaS and self-managed deployments.
  • Own the reliability, scalability, efficiency, provisioning APIs, upgrades, cluster lifecycle management, and operational tooling for developed services.
  • Build and operate services across AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premise, and air-gapped environments.
  • Review pull requests and design proposals and improve engineering processes, tests, systems, and team productivity.
  • Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams and communicate through Slack, GitHub pull requests, and design documents.
  • Provide support for internal and external customers.
  • Periodically assist with the React and TypeScript-based Portal UI.

Requirements

  • Prior experience developing distributed systems.
  • Extensive software development experience with Java.
  • Cloud infrastructure architecture and orchestration experience with at least one major cloud provider.
  • Experience building and operating backend services, APIs, control loops, and lifecycle management systems.
  • Hands-on use of AI coding tools and agents to ship production code, with sound judgment about their appropriate use.
  • Experience with software engineering and design best practices.
  • Ability to build maintainable, performant, and high-quality software in a globally distributed team.
  • Comfort working with significant autonomy and ownership.
  • Curiosity about other engineering teams and ability to connect capabilities into a unified implementation.
  • Demonstrated ownership, grit, and bias for action.

Benefits

  • Remote work from Warsaw, Poland.
  • Equity packages in the form of ISOs.
  • Comprehensive benefits offering.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Competitive pay and stock grants.
Starburst

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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