Job Description

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

• India - Remote

At StarTree 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. 

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.

About the Team: 

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. 

About the Role:

In this role, you’ll be contributing to the open-source Apache Pinot software in addition to the following areas:

• Building real-time database/data system internals
• Query engine optimization, compilation, and execution
• Data ingestion, storage, modeling, and indexing services
• Building scalable, low latency, distributed systems
• Creating automation and abstraction self-service tooling

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years experience in a related field 
• Proficiency in Java, C++, or Scala programming languages
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, etc)
• Familiarity with stream/batch processing, database, and/or data system internals 
• Hands on experience working on large-scale distributed systems
• Knowledge of multi-threading and concurrency concepts
• Open-source contributions is a plus

About StarTree:  

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 Apache Pinot, 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.