About this Software Engineer SRE role at StarTree
At StarTree 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.
We are looking for an SRE / Cloud Operations Engineer with 1–2 years of hands-on experience supporting cloud-based applications. The person will help maintain reliable, secure, and scalable platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure, with a strong focus on Kubernetes-based workloads.
The role involves monitoring services, troubleshooting production issues, supporting deployments, automating operational tasks, and collaborating with development and platform teams to improve availability and performance.
Team Size
The candidate will join the SRE team, partnering closely with application developers, security teams, and cloud infrastructure teams. The team owns platform availability, observability, incident response, deployment reliability, and operational automation.
Candidate Experience
- 1–2 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Operations, Systems Engineering, or Infrastructure Support.
- Hands-on experience working with Kubernetes, including deploying and troubleshooting pods, deployments, services, namespaces, ConfigMaps, and Secrets.
- Exposure to supporting production applications and handling incidents or service requests.
- Experience working in at least one public cloud: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Hands-on exposure to Linux administration, scripting, monitoring, containers, and Docker.
- Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines and software deployment practices.
Skills (Non-negotiables & good to have)
- Hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Basic Kubernetes knowledge: pods, deployments, services, namespaces, ConfigMaps, Secrets, logs, and troubleshooting.
- Docker/container fundamentals.
- Linux troubleshooting and administration skills.
- Scripting knowledge in Bash or Python.
- Understanding of networking basics: DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP, load balancers, security groups/firewalls.
- Familiarity with monitoring and alerting concepts, such as metrics, logs, dashboards, and incident response.
- Good communication and problem-solving skills.
About StarTree:
StarTree is a cloud-based software company that enables business customers to derive advanced insights from real-time and historical data. StarTree 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 LinkedIn, Uber, Target, 7Eleven, Etsy, Walmart, WePay, Factual, Weibo, and more. StarTree Cloud has enabled even more companies to deploy and operate real-time analytics at scale, including Stripe, Sovrn, Roadie, Just Eat Takeaway.com, Dialpad, Guitar Center, Blinkit, and more.
StarTree recently announced our Series B Funding with investment from GGV Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and CRV. We have been named one of The Information's 50 Most Promising Startups and one of CRN's 10 Coolest Cloud Computing Startup Companies of 2022!
