Engineering Manager, StarTree
Data Infrastructure
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3 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
Giving decision-makers data insights
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Giving decision-makers data insights
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make data more accessible and actionable.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong background in database internals, storage systems, query optimization, or distributed data systems
- Experience with technologies like Apache Pinot, Kafka, Spark, or similar real-time analytics and streaming systems
- Proven technical leadership experience acting as a Tech Lead or Tech Lead Manager, having led several projects with 4+ engineers while remaining hands-on. Ability to dive into complex technical details and capable of leading engineers to peak performance
- Excellent communication skills, humility, and a willingness to wear multiple hats to ensure team success
- Experience working with globally distributed and remote teams
- Startup experience is preferred
What the job involves
- The Data Infrastructure team is the backbone of StarTree’s SaaS offering, focused on building world-class data ingestion, storage, and serving systems
- This team is responsible for scaling and evolving StarTree’s Pinot Engine and the corresponding data platforms, ensuring we deliver top-tier performance and reliability
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager with a passion for building large-scale distributed systems to join and grow our Data Infrastructure team
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of 5-8 high-performing engineers working on foundational real-time database infrastructure components, including storage, indexing, query execution, cluster management, and ingestion
- Act as a player/coach: Stay close to the technical details, participate in design discussions and reviews, while focusing primarily on supporting your team members to amplify and multiply the impact of their individual work
- Foster a healthy team culture: Champion your team’s successes and ensure recognition. Step in as needed to provide direction, clarity, and set the right context to create an environment where engineers thrive and projects succeed
- Work closely with field teams to identify investments in performance, scalability, and reliability. Collaborate with product management and leadership to drive technical vision and strategy, shaping StarTree’s roadmap to deliver compelling product differentiators and improvements
- Define and implement processes that promote effective communication and cross-functional collaboration. Own processes and tracking for operational excellence and project lifecycle management
- Partner with product marketing and open-source community leaders to support engineering participation in evangelism, content creation, and community engagement
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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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2022
$47m
SERIES B
May 2021
$24m
SERIES A
Total funding: $75m
Company values
- Put Integrity First - We hold ourselves, our community, and our partners to the highest standards
- Drive Innovation - We are constantly looking forward and pushing the boundaries of technology
- Inspire Each Other - We are stewards of a community where individuals feel valued and supported
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
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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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