Software Engineer II - Benchmark Infrastructure

About the role

Starburst is looking for an Infrastructure specialist with strong Java development skills to work on our internal benchmarking tool for performance analysis. This is a great opportunity to deepen your expertise in a rapidly evolving technology and make a significant impact on leading a cross cloud, cross technologies tool that will allow developers and sales to analyze the performance of our products easily.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain our competitive analysis benchmarking service.

• Collaborate with your team members and other teams globally and operate in a fast-paced environment.

• We prioritise focused work, ensuring minimal time is spent in formal meetings, allowing you to concentrate on design, coding and PR reviews.

• Being able to clearly articulate your ideas in writing across various communication channels like Slack, GitHub PRs, and Design Documents is essential in our globally distributed team.

• Provide exceptional support for internal customers such as fellow engineers, sales and marketing.

Some of the things we look for

• Software development experience with Java.

• Demonstrated experience with software engineering and design best practices.

• At least 2 years of experience developing infrastructure as code like Pulumi / Terraform.

• At least 2 years of experience developing infrastructure with Kubernetes.

• At least 2 years of experience with creating/managing AWS infrastructure.

• Appreciation for creating maintainable and high-quality software as part of a fun, high-performing global team.

• Intrinsic motivation for improving your software engineering craftsmanship.

• Demonstration of ownership, grit, and bias for action - core values at Starburst.

Bonus points:

• Prior experience with additional cloud vendors such as GCP and Azure.