Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software

At Star Tree 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.

At Star Tree 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.

Apache Pinot is a distributed analytics database built for real-time applications at massive scale
. It powers mission-critical workloads at companies including Splunk, Meesho, Crowd Strike, Together AI, and Charter Telecom
, where milliseconds matter and scale is measured in millions of events and tens of thousands of queries per second.

Crowd Strike processes up to 120K events/sec and serves 25K queries/sec
; Together AI analyzes billions of LLM token events per hour with sub‑second latency; and Charter Telecom operates Pinot at an ingestion scale of 120M events/sec
. These aren't just benchmarks—they are production systems powering real customer experiences.

At Star Tree, you’ll work on the distributed systems behind this scale—solving hard problems in performance, reliability, concurrency, and data infrastructure. You’ll have the opportunity to make an impact from day one, take ownership of meaningful problems, and grow rapidly in a high-ownership startup environment.

• Own and drive impactful distributed systems problems end-to-end, from inception through production launch.
• Collaborate with a strong engineering team to identify and prioritize the most impactful problems and projects for the company.
• Raise the quality bar across engineering while helping keep our systems reliable and operationally lean.
• Mentor and grow engineers while learning from experienced, battle‑tested engineers around you.

• Experience- 0-2 Years.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals and experience solving problems  platform is Java‑based, so Java experience is a plus, but not a hard requirement.
• Bias toward execution — able to take an idea from concept through implementation and deliver it to production.
• Deep ownership of quality and customer experience
  , with a strong focus on reliability, observability, performance, and ease of use.
• Adaptability and flexibility — willing to take on whatever is most important for the company and adjust to changing priorities.
• Curiosity, positivity, and resilience — comfortable navigating ambiguity and uncertainty while maintaining a constructive, problem‑solving mindset.

Star Tree is a cloud-based software company that enables business customers to derive advanced insights from real-time and historical data. Star Tree 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 Linked In, Uber, Target, 7

Eleven, Etsy, Walmart, WePay, Factual, Weibo, and more. Star Tree Cloud has enabled even more companies to deploy and operate real-time analytics at scale, including Stripe, Sovrn,…