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Starburst, the Open Hybrid Lakehouse, is the leading end-to-end data platform to securely access, analyze, and share data for analytics and Al across hybrid, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments. As the leaders in Trino, a modern open-source SQL engine, Starburst empowers over 250+ of the most data-driven companies to democratize data access, enhance analytics performance, and improve architecture optionality.
Starburst has raised over $400M in venture funding from top investors, with a unique start as a bootstrapped business with revenue-driving demand from the start. We are a remote-friendly company with employees all across the globe and are proud to be named a Best Place to Work. Come join our team of All-Stars and be a part of this incredible journey!
About the role
We're seeking an experienced Engineering leader to help scale our growing engineering team. You will build and lead a motivated team responsible for developing SaaS based open data lakehouse platform (Galaxy) to be the best data lake analytics platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of successfully building platforms, teams, and the culture necessary to create competitive advantage for previous companies along with the personal passion to see the same applied to this industry.
As an Engineering Manager at Starburst you will:
- Lead and grow a team of passionate engineers. Provide support and guidance that enables the team to self-organize and to achieve sustained high velocity and predictability.
- Drive and deliver the vision for data governance for the data lake analytics platform covering authentication, authorization and compliance aspects of the platform.
- Help employees grow through career development, coaching, and mentoring while guiding senior contributors to maximize their potential. You'll provide a clear path for progression through personal development plans, defining goals, performing evaluations, and collaborating with employees on their objectives. Most of all, ensure employees are having fun with their work.
- Own, operate, and maintain your team’s services. Employ Agile methodologies to continuously deliver value to customers. Enhance and maintain a rotating on-call incident escalation and response process.
- Represent your team’s operational maturity to Starburst’s executives and product teams across the company.
- Collaborate on roadmaps with Product Managers, Architects, and Tech Leads to ensure the team has clear direction and priorities.
- Act as an ambassador for Starburst, recruiting and motivating top talent
Some of the things we look for:
- You have a track record of leading distributed systems engineering and operations teams in software companies.
- You have demonstrated expertise in building and running a platform in multiple locations at Billions of events/week or greater scale either on-premise or in public cloud. Specific expertise in Highly Available data architectures across multiple availability zones is highly desired.
- You have prior experience in building enterprise security features.
- You are passionate about engineering hygiene and operational excellence. You have the know-how to build an engineering organization that delivers it.
- You are familiar with agile processes, continuous integration, and test automation.
- You are a strategic thinker as it relates to scale and removing humans from the loop.
- You thrive when operating in broad scope, from conception through the continuous operation of 24x7 services to defined SLA’s.
- You distill complex and ambiguous situations into actionable plans for your team.
- You represent your customers’ perspectives. You plan for how they will be impacted by the services you build, and you always work to enable their success.
Starburst is dedicated to maintaining fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range provided for this role reflects the minimum and maximum targets for candidates across all U.S. locations and could be inclusive of variable compensation, such as commission or bonus. All employees receive equity packages (ISOs) and have access to a comprehensive benefits offering. Actual compensation packages are determined based on relevant skills, experience, education and training, and specific work location. For more information, connect with the recruiting team or Hiring Manager during the process as they can provide more detailed information about the salary range.
Pay Range
$230,000—$250,000 USD
All-Stars have the opportunity and freedom to realize their true potential. By building alongside top talent, we’re empowered to take ownership of our careers and drive meaningful change. Anchored in industry-proven technology and unprecedented success, All-Stars are taking on the challenge everyday to disrupt our industry – and the future.
Our global workforce is supported by a competitive Total Rewards program that reflects our commitment to a rewarding and supportive work environment. This includes a variety of benefits like competitive pay, attractive stock grants, flexible paid time off, and more.
We are committed to fostering an intentional, inclusive, and diverse culture that drives deep engagement, authentic belonging, and an exceptional All-Star experience. We believe that diversity of thought, perspective, background and experience will enable us to own what we do, drive our success and empower our All-Stars to show up authentically.
Starburst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state
or local laws.
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