Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure - AI Platform
You will tune the StarRocks serving layer, build and harden data pipelines, operate and troubleshoot government cloud infrastructure, and use AI-assisted tools to debug production issues, analyze logs, review code, and improve system reliability.
Responsibilities
- Own performance tuning on the StarRocks serving layer.
- Build and harden data pipelines feeding government cloud investigations.
- Operate and troubleshoot the serving layer independently.
- Use AI-assisted debugging and log analysis to triage production issues.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Hands-on experience operating distributed OLAP or serving-layer systems such as StarRocks, Trino, ClickHouse, or similar.
- Experience with query tuning and performance optimization at scale.
- Experience owning data pipeline reliability and incident response.
- Comfort using AI tools such as Claude or Cursor for debugging, code review, and documentation.
- Ability to independently operate and troubleshoot production infrastructure.
- Ability to take on-call responsibility with minimal oversight.