# Senior Software Engineer, Connectors

**Company**: Starburst
**Location**: Boston, MA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $185,000-$215,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Starburst is looking for strong Java engineers to work with its globally distributed engineering team on the core of Starburst's software. This is a great opportunity to deepen expertise in a rapidly evolving technology and make a significant impact on leading data analytics products.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Connectors at Starburst, you will:

- Design, develop and maintain Connectors in Open Source Trino, the Starburst Enterprise Platform, or Starburst Galaxy

- Find ingenious ways to speed up complex queries without sacrificing correctness of the results

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

- Provide exceptional customer support for both internal and external customers

Some of the things we look for:

- Prior experience developing distributed systems

- Extensive software development experience with Java

- Demonstrated experience with software engineering and design best practices

- Appreciation for creating maintainable, performant, and high-quality software

- Intrinsic motivation for improving software engineering craftsmanship

- Significant autonomy and ownership

- Curiosity to see what other engineering teams are doing and ability to connect the dots

Bonus points:

- Familiarity with using a Query Engine (Storage and Compute separation)

- Data Engineering expertise

- Understanding the Data Engineer's perspective is valuable in driving innovation within data lakehouse architectures

- Experience with Iceberg, Delta Lake, and/or Hive table format sync is a plus

- Experience in contributing to larger-scale Open-Source Software

- Ability to push forward and deliver functionality while respecting peers, keeping in mind Correctness, Quality, Performance, Code maintainability

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- distributed systems
- software engineering
- design best practices

### Nice to have
- Query Engine
- Data Engineering
- Iceberg
- Delta Lake
- Hive table format sync
- Open-Source Software

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