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Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Job Overview

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. At StarTree, you’ll work on the distributed systems behind this scale—solving hard problems in performance, reliability, concurrency, and data infrastructure.

Key points

  1. Apache Pinot is a distributed analytics database built for real-time applications at massive scale.

  2. It powers mission-critical workloads at companies including Splunk, Meesho, CrowdStrike, Together AI, and Charter Telecom…

  3. CrowdStrike processes up to 120K events/sec and serves 25K queries/sec; Together AI analyzes billions of LLM token events per hour with sub-second latency…

  4. These aren't just benchmarks—they are production systems powering real customer experiences.

  5. Strong distributed systems fundamentals and experience solving problems at scale. Our platform is Java-based, so Java experience is a plus…

  6. Bias toward execution — able to take an idea from concept through implementation and deliver it to production.

  7. Deep ownership of quality and customer experience, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, performance, and ease of use.

  8. Adaptability and flexibility — willing to take on whatever is most important for the company and adjust to changing priorities.

Skills

JavaLLMsProblem Solving

Experience: Senior-level

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