Staff Site Reliability Engineer

About the role:

StarTree is seeking exceptional Site Reliability Engineers (SRE), to manage, tune and debug the large-scale highly available distributed systems. You will be working with a team of passionate and talented engineers in automation, tuning, and troubleshooting of Apache Pinot and SQL DBs. We are looking for motivated, hardworking and focused individuals who have a real passion for operational excellence, data systems, and automation.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage various monitoring and alerting services to solve intricate programming problems at scale.
• Manage and tune multiple critical customer-facing Apache Pinot clusters
• Monitor availability, read/write latencies, and other key telemetry to proactively identify SLO misses and help mitigate issues
• Build a rapport with and work closely with customers to mitigate and resolve incidents
• Execute disaster recovery strategies with minimal downtime
• Collaborate with other engineers to understand and troubleshoot systems and use the experience gained to influence the roadmap of other teams

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as an engineer (SRE, SDET, or development)
• Experience managing highly available production facing distributed systems and in-depth knowledge of Java are a plus
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Familiarity with streaming systems, such as Kafka, Pulsar, Flume, Flink, Spark, or similar
• Knowledge of standard methodologies related to security, performance, and disaster recovery
• Strong troubleshooting and critical thinking skills