Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform (Pinot) at StarTree

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At <a href="https://startree.ai" target="_blank">StarTree</a> we're a group of passionate individuals that desire to improve the lives of many by developing tools and technologies that support availability and speed in the world of real-time analytics.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our aim is to make it simple for every company to delight their users - external and internal - and create new revenue streams from their data, by building the world’s most comprehensive and accessible cloud analytics system.</span></p></div><p><strong>About the Team:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Data Infrastructure team is at the core of StarTree’s SaaS offering - enabling our customers to leverage real-time data to accelerate key decision-making by building world-class data ingestion, processing, and serving systems. The team is responsible for scaling and evolving StarTree’s Pinot Engine and the corresponding data platforms.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>About the Role:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this role, you’ll be contributing to the open-source Apache Pinot software in addition to the following areas:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building real-time database/data system internals</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Query engine optimization, compilation, and execution</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Data ingestion, storage, modeling, and indexing services</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building scalable, low latency, distributed systems</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creating automation and abstraction self-service tooling</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>What we’re looking for:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">5+ years experience in a related field&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proficiency in Java, C++, or Scala programming languages</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, etc)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Familiarity with stream/batch processing, database, and/or data system internals&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hands on experience working on large-scale distributed systems</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Knowledge of multi-threading and concurrency concepts</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open-source contributions is a plus</span></li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>About StarTree:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">StarTree is a cloud-based software company that enables business customers to derive advanced insights from real-time and historical data. StarTree was founded by the core software engineering team and inventors of </span><a href="https://pinot.apache.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Apache Pinot</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which currently powers hundreds of user-facing applications at companies across industries, including LinkedIn, Uber, Target, 7Eleven, Etsy, Walmart, WePay, Factual, Weibo, and more. StarTree Cloud has enabled even more companies to deploy and operate real-time analytics at scale, including Stripe, Sovrn, Roadie, Just Eat Takeaway.com, Dialpad, Guitar Center, Blinkit, and more.</span></p> <p><br><span style="font-weight: 400;">StarTree recently announced our </span><a href="https://startree-preview.vercel.app/blog/startree-lands-47-million-in-series-b-funding-to-accelerate-adoption-of-real-time"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Series B Funding</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with investment from GGV Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and CRV. We have been named one of The Information's 50 Most Promising Startups and one of CRN's 10 Coolest Cloud Computing Startup Companies of 2022!</span></p></div>