Site Reliability Engineer

StarTree is seeking exceptional Site Reliability Engineers for Pinot (SRE- Pinot), 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 the automation, tuning, and troubleshooting of Apache Pinot. We are looking for motivated, hardworking, and focused individuals who have a real passion for operational excellence, data systems, and automation.

• 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
• Debugging Pinot queries and ingestion when incidents occur.

• 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
• Exposure with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration is a plus
• Familiarity with streaming systems, such as Kafka, Pulsar, Flume, Flink, Spark, or similar
• Strong troubleshooting and critical thinking skills
• Experience working with managing Apache Pinot is preferred
• Experience building Java apps is required. 
• Experience with zookeeper is a huge plus