Senior Software Engineer, Context Layer at Starburst Data. Location Information: United States. Starburst is on a mission to power analytics anywhere. We help companies quickly unlock the value of their data by making it easy to access.. Design, build, and operate backend services that collect and reconcile business context from a variety of existing systems into governed Context Studio.. Build and evolve the certification and versioning workflow that lets teams trust a single definition of their metrics and data.. Contribute to the APIs and MCP-based integrations that let AI agents and BI tools query certified context directly.. Own reliability and data consistency for services that merge and reconcile information from many sources at once.. Partner directly with product on what gets built, not just how — and pick up frontend, tooling, or other full-stack work when it's the fastest way to unblock a feature or validate an idea.. Work cross-functionally with teams across the platform, including those building AI-powered features, to ship context-aware capabilities.. Provide considerate, timely review of your peers' pull requests and design proposals.. Extensive software development experience with Java, with the versatility and willingness to work across the full stack.. Experience designing, building, and operating distributed backend services in production.. Experience designing and operating REST APIs.. Experience modeling and serving graph-structured or richly-relational data.. Experience integrating LLMs into backend systems.. Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-evolving problem spaces.. Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools in real production work.. Demonstrated experience with software engineering best practices.. Experience with data catalogs, semantic layers, or metadata/governance systems (e.g., dbt, Collibra) is a plus.. Pay range:. $185K - $215K. Competitive pay and attractive stock grants.. Flexible paid time off.. Comprehensive benefits offering including equity packages.
Senior Software Engineer, Context Layer at Starburst Data