About the Role:

StarTree is seeking an experienced Technical Support Engineer located in Europe, who craves a challenge and feels energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize StarTree's potential and solve big problems.

Technical Support Engineers work at the intersection of StarTree’s engineering, sales, and customer success teams and drive customer success by helping identify and resolve critical issues in their production and pre-production environments. 

In this role, you’ll interact directly with our customers to provide software development and operations expertise, leveraging deep knowledge of best practices in the use of Apache Pinot and the broader StarTree Platform. You will be hands-on in fixing issues seen by StarTree customers. This may include contributing fixes back to the open-source community. You’ll build strong relationships with customers, ensuring exemplary support and timely resolution to customer requests.  

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other engineers to understand and troubleshoot systems and use the experience gained to influence the roadmap of the StarTree product
• Work with customers to resolve a wide range of issues with their deployments and usage
• Contribute to process development - we are always looking to improve how we work
• Communicate with product and engineering teams to provide product feedback from the field
• Improve product documentation and author knowledge base articles
• Create internal tooling and review product demos

What we’re looking for:

• Must be located in the Europe region to be considered.
• Experience in diagnosing, reproducing, and resolving technical issues in complex customer production environments
• Deep desire to help customers through direct interaction
• Previous experience working in a startup environment with global customers
• Experience troubleshooting applications running on Linux (resource contention, network bottlenecks, etc.)
• Operational knowledge of Java applications
• Experience with at least one mainstream distributed system
• Familiarity with streaming systems, such as Kafka, Pulsar, Flume, Flink, Spark, or similar
• Strong troubleshooting and critical thinking skills
• Excitement in learning about streaming data and becoming a domain expert in Apache Pinot
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills