Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Engineering
About the role
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform - INDIA
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.
About the Team:
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.
About the Role:
The platform engineering role requires strong software engineering fundamentals, knowledge of building and operating distributed systems and services. In this role, you’ll be contributing to the following areas:
- 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
What we’re looking for:
- 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, etc.)
- Experience building and operating SaaS services/products is a plus
- Open-source contributions are a plus