Staff Data Engineer AI Platform
You will operate and tune the StarRocks serving layer, build reliable data pipelines for government cloud investigations, reduce infrastructure single points of failure, and use AI-assisted debugging and log analysis to resolve production issues in a regulated environment.
Responsibilities
- Tune performance on the StarRocks serving layer
- Use AI-assisted query profiling to identify and fix slow query patterns
- Build and harden data pipelines for government cloud investigations
- Operate and troubleshoot the serving layer independently
- Reduce single points of failure in government cloud data infrastructure
- Use AI-assisted debugging and log analysis to triage production issues
- Respond to incidents and implement root-cause fixes
- Participate in production incident retrospectives and improve runbooks
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship
- Experience operating distributed OLAP or serving-layer systems such as StarRocks, Trino, or ClickHouse
- Experience with query tuning and performance optimization at scale
- Experience owning data pipeline reliability and incident response
- Experience using Claude, Cursor, or similar AI tools for debugging, code review, and documentation
- Ability to independently operate unfamiliar production infrastructure
- Ability to take on-call responsibility with minimal oversight
Benefits
- Remote work