Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

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 6+ 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