Senior Manager Engineering - Control Plane at Starburst

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation

Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

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Technology, Data Analytics, AIIndustries

Requirements

4+ years of engineering management experience with a total of 8+ years of experience
Track record of leading distributed systems engineering and operations teams in software companies
Demonstrated expertise in building and running a platform in multiple locations at billions of events/week or greater scale (on-premise or public cloud)
Specific expertise in highly available data architectures across multiple availability zones highly desired
Passionate about engineering hygiene and operational excellence, with know-how to build an engineering organization that delivers it
Familiar with agile processes, continuous integration, and test automation
Strategic thinker as it relates to scale and removing humans from the loop
Thrives operating in broad scope, from conception through continuous operation of 24x7 services to defined SLAs
Ability to distill complex and ambiguous situations into actionable plans
Represents customers’ perspectives and plans for their success
Willingness to travel occasionally for onboarding, offsites, customer engagements, and company events
Based in Boston or San Francisco office, hybrid model with 2-3 days onsite per week

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a team of passionate engineers, providing support and guidance for self-organization, high velocity, and predictability
Drive and deliver the vision for serverless SaaS and end-to-end functionality for data lake analytics platform (ingestion, data management, governance)
Help employees grow through career development, coaching, mentoring; guide senior contributors; create personal development plans, set goals, perform evaluations, collaborate on objectives; ensure fun at work
Own, operate, and maintain team’s services using Agile methodologies for continuous delivery; enhance rotating on-call incident escalation and response process
Represent team’s operational maturity to executives and product teams
Collaborate on roadmaps with Product Managers and Tech Leads for clear direction and priorities
Act as ambassador for Starburst, recruiting and motivating top talent

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Team Management

SaaS Development

Serverless Architecture

Data Lake Analytics

Data Ingestion

Data Management

Data Governance

Agile Methodologies

Starburst

Data analytics and SQL engine distribution

About Starburst

Starburst specializes in data analytics by providing a distribution and support for the Trino SQL engine, which is designed for efficient and scalable analytics on data lakes and various data sources. Their products, Starburst Galaxy and Starburst Enterprise, allow clients to access and analyze data quickly, whether in the cloud or on-premises. Starburst connects seamlessly with popular data visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI, and Looker, making it easier for users to integrate and access their data. What sets Starburst apart from competitors is its enhancement of the open-source Trino engine with additional connectors, security features, and dedicated enterprise support. The company's goal is to help organizations achieve faster data insights and better decision-making through improved analytics capabilities.

Boston, MassachusettsHeadquarters

2017Year Founded

$402.7MTotal Funding

SERIES_DCompany Stage

Data & Analytics, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries

501-1,000Employees

Benefits

Competitive salary & attractive stock grants

Remote-friendly work options

Quality & affordable insurance

Flexible & generous paid time off

Environment of transparency, honesty & respect

Risks

Increased competition from companies like Dell could impact Starburst's market share.

The rapid growth of unique data vendors may lead to increased market complexity.

Enterprises moving towards single-cloud strategies could challenge Starburst's multi-cloud offerings.

Differentiation

Starburst offers both cloud-based and on-premises solutions, catering to diverse client needs.

The company enhances the open-source Trino engine with additional connectors and security features.

Starburst's platform integrates with popular data tools like Tableau, Power BI, and Looker.

Upsides

Starburst Galaxy achieved 3x year-over-year growth in active customers and usage volume.

The platform enables 10X faster data processing and 66% cost reduction for clients like Arity.

Starburst's Icehouse platform leverages open-source Trino and Apache Iceberg for scalability.

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