Site Reliability Engineer
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Joblaze summary
In the role of Site Reliability Engineer at StarTree, the individual will focus on managing and optimizing large-scale distributed systems, particularly Apache Pinot clusters, to ensure high availability and performance. Key skills include expertise in Java, cloud platforms like AWS or GCP, and familiarity with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with over five years of experience in SRE or related fields, who are passionate about operational excellence and data systems. StarTree, a rapidly growing cloud-based analytics company, emphasizes collaboration and innovation within its engineering team.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from StarTree's career page.
- StarTree has 7 other open roles including Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform (Pinot), Engineering Manager, Data Platform , Enterprise Architect.
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Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Site Reliability Engineer role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Flume, Spark, Java, Pulsar, Apache Pinot.
- What seniority level is this role?
- StarTree targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Site Reliability Engineer role at StarTree.
From the original posting
At StarTree we're a group of passionate individuals that desire to improve the lives of many by developing tools and technologies that support availability and speed in the world of real-time analytics.
Our aim is to make it simple for every company to delight their users - external and internal - and create new revenue streams from their data, by building the world’s most comprehensive and accessible cloud analytics system.
About the role:
StarTree is seeking exceptional Site Reliability Engineers (SRE), to manage, tune and debug the large-scale highly available distributed systems. You will be working with a team of passionate and talented engineers in automation, tuning, and troubleshooting of Apache Pinot and SQL DBs. We are looking for motivated, hardworking and focused individuals who have a real passion for operational excellence, data systems, and automation.
Responsibilities:
- Leverage various monitoring and alerting services to solve intricate programming problems at scale.
- Manage and tune multiple critical customer-facing Apache Pinot clusters
- Monitor availability, read/write latencies, and other key telemetry to proactively identify SLO misses and help mitigate issues
- Build a rapport with and work closely with customers to mitigate and resolve incidents
- Execute disaster recovery strategies with minimal downtime
- Collaborate with other engineers to understand and troubleshoot systems and use the experience gained to influence the roadmap of other teams
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience as an engineer (SRE, SDET, or development)
- Experience managing highly available production facing distributed systems and in-depth knowledge of Java are a plus
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Familiarity with streaming systems, such as Kafka, Pulsar, Flume, Flink, Spark, or similar
- Knowledge of standard methodologies related to security, performance, and disaster recovery
- Strong troubleshooting and critical thinking skills
About StarTree:
StarTree is a cloud-based software company that enables business customers to derive advanced insights from real-time and historical data. StarTree was founded by the core software engineering team and inventors of Apache Pinot, which currently powers hundreds of user-facing applications at companies across industries, including LinkedIn, Uber, Target, 7Eleven, Etsy, Walmart, WePay, Factual, Weibo, and more. StarTree Cloud has enabled even more companies to deploy and operate real-time analytics at scale, including Stripe, Sovrn, Roadie, Just Eat Takeaway.com, Dialpad, Guitar Center, Blinkit, and more.
StarTree recently announced our Series B Funding with investment from GGV Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and CRV. We have been named one of The Information's 50 Most Promising Startups and one of CRN's 10 Coolest Cloud Computing Startup Companies of 2022!