Starburst
Senior Software Engineer, Context Layer
$185K–$215K
Boston, MA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Remote - Poland - Experience
- Extensive software development experience; no specific number of years stated.
About the job
Build backend services for Starburst’s Enterprise Context Layer, turning business context from multiple systems into governed, versioned data products that people, BI tools, and AI agents can use.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate services that collect and reconcile business context, with reliable and consistent data.
- Develop certification and versioning workflows, APIs, and MCP-based integrations for certified context.
- Partner with product and platform teams to shape features, review designs, and contribute across the stack as needed.
What they ask for
- Extensive software development experience with Java.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed backend services in production.
- Experience designing and operating REST APIs, and modeling and serving graph-structured or richly-relational data.
- Experience integrating LLMs into backend systems and using agentic coding tools in production with appropriate guardrails.
Nice to have
- Experience with data catalogs, semantic layers, or metadata/governance systems such as dbt or Collibra.
Pay
$185,000 — $215,000 USD (salary range; may include variable compensation)
Tools
Java, REST APIs, MCP, LLMs, dbt, Collibra
AI focus
Integrate LLMs for structured extraction, prompt-based enrichment, and evaluating output correctness; provide APIs and MCP integrations so AI agents can query certified context; collaborate on context-aware AI capabilities.
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