StarTree

Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

India · Remote (country restricted)

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EmployerStarTree
LocationIndia
Work styleRemote (country restricted)
Employer posted2 months ago

At StarTree we're a group of passionate individuals that desire to improve the lives of many by developing tools and technologies that support availability and speed in the world of real-time analytics.

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.

Team and Responsibilities

Apache Pinot is a distributed analytics database built for real-time applications at massive scale. It powers mission-critical workloads at companies including Splunk, Meesho, CrowdStrike, Together AI, and Charter Telecom, where milliseconds matter and scale is measured in millions of events and tens of thousands of queries per second.

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; and Charter Telecom operates Pinot at an ingestion scale of 120M events/sec. These aren't just benchmarks—they are production systems powering real customer experiences.

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At StarTree, you’ll work on the distributed systems behind this scale—solving hard problems in performance, reliability, concurrency, and data infrastructure. You’ll have the opportunity to make an impact from day one, take ownership of meaningful problems, and grow rapidly in a high-ownership startup environment.

You Will

Own and drive impactful distributed systems problems end-to-end, from inception through production launch.
Collaborate with a strong engineering team to identify and prioritize the most impactful problems and projects for the company.
Raise the quality bar across engineering while helping keep our systems reliable and operationally lean.
Mentor and grow engineers while learning from experienced, battle-tested engineers around you.

Skills & Experience

Strong distributed systems fundamentals and experience solving problems at scale. Our platform is Java-based, so Java experience is a plus, but not a hard requirement.
Bias toward execution — able to take an idea from concept through implementation and deliver it to production.
Deep ownership of quality and customer experience, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, performance, and ease of use.
Adaptability and flexibility — willing to take on whatever is most important for the company and adjust to changing priorities.
Curiosity, positivity, and resilience — comfortable navigating ambiguity and uncertainty while maintaining a constructive, problem-solving mindset.

AI-First Mindset - Comfortable using AI tools in everyday engineering workflows and eager to continuously learn and integrate AI into how you build, debug, test, and solve problems.

About StarTree:

StarTree is a cloud-based software company that enables business customers to derive advanced insights from real-time and historical data. StarTree was founded by the core software engineering team and inventors of Apache Pinot, which currently powers hundreds of user-facing applications at companies across industries, including LinkedIn, Uber, Target, 7Eleven, Etsy, Walmart, WePay, Factual, Weibo, and more. StarTree Cloud has enabled even more companies to deploy and operate real-time analytics at scale, including Stripe, Sovrn, Roadie, Just Eat Takeaway.com, Dialpad, Guitar Center, Blinkit, and more.

StarTree is backed by leading investors including GGV Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, CRV, and Citi”

About StarTree:

StarTree recently announced our Series B Funding with investment from GGV Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and CRV. We have been named one of The Information's 50 Most Promising Startups and one of CRN's 10 Coolest Cloud Computing Startup Companies of 2022!

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