Senior Software Engineer, StarTree
Cloud Engineering
Giving decision-makers data insights
Open for applications
Giving decision-makers data insights
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make data more accessible and actionable.
Role
Who you are
- The platform engineering role requires strong software engineering fundamentals, knowledge of building and operating distributed systems and services
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, and/or 4+ years relevant industry
- Experience working on large-scale distributed systems
- Proficiency with Java and/or Golang programming
- Knowledge of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Strong experience with container workloads (Kubernetes,Terraform, ect.)
- Experience building and operating SaaS services/products is a plus
- Open-source contributions are a plus
What the job involves
- The Platform Engineering team is responsible for building innovative SaaS services and platforms. The team builds and operates StarTree cloud platform, a robust, resilient, auto-scaling platform that allows us to offer the power of Apache Pinot as a fully managed service by seamlessly managing hundreds of fully automated clusters in production
- The team is fast-paced, high-velocity, and innovative using state-of-the-art technology. The focus is always on automation, solving sophisticated challenges and learning through continuous iterations
- Creating and operating multiple high scale services that can be deployed seamlessly across any public cloud
- Managing substantial Kubernetes workloads that span across all major cloud providers and regions
- Owning the design and development of multiple features in the cloud control plane and platform
- Non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, reliability, availability, etc.)
- Championing Agile software development and quality standards
Our take
StarTree is a startup founded by the creators of Apache Pinot, which delivers scaled analytics at low latency for up to millions of users - and has proven successful with market giants like Weibo, Walmart, and LinkedIn. StarTree is the platform-as-service version of Apache Pinot for enterprise, which is used by Cisco, Etsy and Target.
The company's pedigree is strong, with founders previously holding engineering positions at Uber and LinkedIn. They saw firsthand the benefits of providing real-time insights to users of Linkedin and UberEats, knowing it would sit well with the wider population.
Certainly, with more companies grappling with larger data pools at speed, the demand for low-latency analytics engines appears to only be growing. StarTree hopes to position Apache Pinot as the go-to engine for this and is focusing on marketing and sales to fend off rivals such as ClickHouse. It is expanding internationally as well to drive uptake, opening an office in India to grow into Asian markets..
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Insights
53% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2022
$47m
SERIES B
May 2021
$24m
SERIES A
Total funding: $75m
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Xiang Fu
(Co-Founder)After compleating a Masters in Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer for LinkedIn and Staff Software Engineer for Uber. They were the Founding Engineer for Stealth Mode Startup and a Pinot PMC and Committer for The Apache Software Foundation.
Kishore Gopalakrishna
(Co-Founder & CEO)After graduating from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, they became an Application Developer for Oracle. Before becoming the Founding Engineer for the Stealth Mode Startup Company, they were a Senior Technical at Yahoo and Senior Staff Engineer at LinkedIn.
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