Software Engineer I

Overview

Software Engineer I on the Apache Pinot team at StarTree, building distributed systems for real-time analytics at massive scale.

What you'll do

• 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 systems reliable and operationally lean.
• Mentor and grow engineers while learning from experienced, battle-tested engineers around you.

What you'll need

• Experience: 0-2 years.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals and experience solving problems at scale.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Java experience (the platform is Java-based, but it is not a hard requirement).

Details

• Location: US (Remote).