[Hiring] Software Engineer I @StarTree

Role Description

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
• Charter Telecom

These companies rely on Pinot 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.
• Charter Telecom operates Pinot at an ingestion scale of 120M events/sec.

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.

Qualifications

• 0-2 Years of experience.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals and experience solving problems at scale.
• 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.

Company Description

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

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

StarTree recently announced our Series B Funding with investment from:

• GGV Capital
• Sapphire Ventures
• Bain Capital Ventures
• 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!