Starburst Engineers develop high quality and cutting edge software
We are the Presto company --- At Starburst, our team is a major contributor to the open source Presto project. We consist of many of the experts and committers who have been contributing to and advancing the Presto product over the last few years. Originally invented and open sourced by Facebook under the Apache License, Presto is the fastest growing SQL engine driven by a community of users --- from small companies to the Fortune 500.
Starburst is looking for software engineers to work on our team in Boston. Our team features very strong software engineering talent, with years of core database engine and distributed systems development experience. As a software engineer you’ll be designing and implementing the Starburst products for the cloud and contribute directly to the core Presto project.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop core components to the Starburst products for Presto
- Contribute to the ongoing Presto development by implementing new features, bug fixes, and other improvements
- Develop new and extend existing Presto connectors to data sources
- Lead complex and technically challenging projects from concept to completion
- Write tests and contribute to ongoing automation infrastructure development
- Run and analyze software performance metrics
- Collaborate with teams globally across multiple time zones and operate in an Agile development environment
- Provide exceptional customer support and be part of the support rotations for 24/7 customer escalations
- Requirements
- Be Smart and Get Things Done
- 5+ year experience developing large scale software in Java or C++
- Experience with AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience working on SaaS products or with Service Oriented Architectures
Pluses
- Experience with Hadoop, Spark, Docker
- Comfortable in scripting languages
- Experience using front end web frameworks such as Angular, Backbone, or React
- Experience with usability and user experience
- Experience with Database internals such as query optimization or query execution
Location
This position is located in Boston
About Starburst
Starburst gives analysts the freedom to work with diverse data sets wherever the data lives, without compromising on performance. Using the open source Presto SQL engine, the Starburst Distribution of Presto provides fast, interactive query performance across a wide variety of data sources including HDFS, Amazon S3, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka, and Teradata, among others. Founded by the largest team of Presto committers outside of Facebook, Starburst is the only company providing enterprise support for the Presto project. Candidates should relish the opportunity to shape a cutting-edge technology while working in the fun, collaborative environment of a fast-paced startup.