Senior Software Engineer, Connectors

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain Connectors in Open Source Trino, the Starburst Enterprise Platform, or Starburst Galaxy.
• Starburst offers to its customers over 50 connectors that are critical to their business operations across a wide range of data sources.
• Find ingenious ways to speed up complex queries without sacrificing correctness of the results.
• Collaborate with your team members and other teams globally and operate in a fast paced environment.
• Prioritize focused work, ensuring minimal time is spent in formal meetings, allowing you to concentrate on coding and PR reviews.
• Clearly articulate your ideas in writing across various communication channels like Slack, GitHub PRs, and Design Documents.
• Provide exceptional customer support for both internal and external customers.

Requirements

• Prior experience developing distributed systems.
• Extensive software development experience with Java.
• Demonstrated experience with software engineering and design best practices.
• Appreciation for creating maintainable, performant, and high quality software as part of a high-performing globally distributed team of engineers.
• Intrinsic motivation for improving your software engineering craftsmanship.
• Significant autonomy and ownership.
• Curiosity to see what other engineering teams are doing and ability to connect the dots.
• Demonstration of Ownership, Grit, and Bias for Action.
• Ability to Travel: This role will require 25% in-person travel for purposes including but not limited to new hire onboarding, team and department offsites, customer engagements, and other company events.

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with using a Query Engine (Storage and Compute separation).
• Data Engineering expertise.
• Understanding the Data Engineer's perspective is valuable in driving innovation within data lakehouse architectures.
• Experience with Iceberg, Delta Lake, and/or Hive table format sync.
• Experience in contributing to larger scale Open-Source Software.
• Ability to push forward and deliver functionality while respecting your peers, keeping in mind Correctness, Quality, Performance, Code maintainability.