Starburst
Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane
$185K–$215K
Boston, MA +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Remote - Poland
About the job
Build and operate unified control-plane services for Starburst’s SaaS and self-managed data platform deployments.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and maintain shared control-plane services and unify capabilities across products and deployment models.
- Own service reliability, scalability, performance, APIs, cluster lifecycle management, and operational tooling.
- Review peers’ work, improve engineering processes and systems, support customers, and occasionally assist with the Portal UI.
What they ask for
- Extensive Java software development experience.
- Experience developing distributed systems and building and operating backend services such as APIs, control loops, and lifecycle management.
- Cloud infrastructure architecture and orchestration experience with at least one major cloud provider.
- Hands-on use of AI coding tools and agents in day-to-day engineering, including sound judgment about their use.
Nice to have
- Frontend development knowledge, including React and TypeScript.
Pay
$185,000 — $215,000 USD (salary range; may include variable compensation)
Tools
Java, React, TypeScript, AWS, Azure, GCP, Trino, Apache Iceberg
AI focus
Use AI coding tools and agents in daily engineering work, shipping code with them and applying sound judgment about where they help.
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