Manager, Engineering - Client Integrations

Intro about Starburst: 

Starburst is the data platform for analytics, applications, and AI, unifying data across clouds and on-premises to accelerate AI innovation. Organizations—from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises in 60+ countries—rely on Starburst for fast data access, seamless collaboration, and enterprise-grade governance on an open hybrid data lakehouse. Wherever data lives, Starburst unlocks its full potential, powering data and AI from development to deployment. By future-proofing data architecture, Starburst helps businesses fuel innovation with AI.

About the Client Integrations Engineering Team

The Client Integrations team acts as a bridge, ensuring that the Starburst’s customers can make use of the Trino Query Engine in order to enable them to "see the invisible and achieve the impossible" with their data.

In a nutshell, the key responsibilities of this team include:

• Creating and supporting client drivers that allow connectivity to Starburst’s Query Engine
• One prominent example is ODBC driver where the Client Integrations team has spearheaded the adoption of the Trino Spooling Protocol to provide an outstanding throughput increase in the query throughput
• Integrating with business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools: A core function is ensuring that Starburst works well with popular BI and analytics platforms like Tableau, Power BI, and dbt.

About the role

We're seeking an Engineering leader to help scale our growing engineering team. You will build and lead the engineering team responsible for developing the client integrations with our products. The ideal candidate will have a good understanding about the Data Engineering space and a  strong track record of successfully building teams, and the culture necessary to create competitive advantage for previous companies along with the personal passion to see the same applied to this industry.

As Engineering Manager, you will partner with Engineering and Product Leadership to deliver and execute on roadmap deliverables. You will support and mentor the dynamic, talented, global, fun team, while emphasizing quality at every stage of the product.

As an Engineering Manager at Starburst you will: 

• Lead and grow a team of passionate engineers. Provide support and guidance that enables the team to self-organize and to achieve sustained high velocity and predictability.
• Manage and motivate a team of software engineers focused on various aspects of the Starburst Galaxy and Starburst Enterprise products.
• Demonstrate authentic enthusiasm for the Engineering space your team owns  by proactively performing exploratory testing of the functionality of various integrations built by the Engineering Team. Take a hands-on approach, sharing constructive feedback with the Engineering team to drive continuous improvement.
• Drive technical direction and provide leadership and transparency in an agile environment
• Partner with other engineering leaders to find the best solution to a wide array of problems, define best practices, and build cutting-edge software
• Work closely with leaders from other departments including Product, Marketing and Analytics to iterate on design and architecture
• Coach and mentor engineers of all levels, from junior engineers to technical leads
• Recruit, interview, hire and onboard new engineers

Some of the things we look for:

• At least 3 years of engineering management experience with a total of 8 years or more experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Management of partial- or fully-remote teams distributed across multiple timezones
• Enthusiasm for growing strong and diverse teams, and making good teams great on both the team and individual contributor levels
• A passion for software engineering and interest in all phases of the agile software development lifecycle
• Championing communication & collaboration between the Engineers in the team and cross-pollination with other Engineering Teams as well as other Stakeholders in the company
• Good understanding of SQL databases
• Hands-on experience in the Data Engineering space (ODBC, Python ecosystem, BI tools, Spark)
• Demonstrated experience with good engineering practices and software craftsmanship
• Demonstrable experience in shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently
• Capable of reasoning about code written  in various programming languages
• Different programming languages are required to accommodate diverse client drivers due to the broad scope of client integrations.
• Experience with working on or managing Open Source Software
• A distinctive aspect of this role lies in our reliance on the Trino Open Source Project . Consequently, some of the Client Integrations developed and maintained by the team are open source.

Why build your career at Starburst?

All-Stars have the opportunity and freedom to realize their true potential. By building alongside top talent, we’re empowered to take ownership of our careers and drive meaningful change. Anchored in industry-proven technology and unprecedented success, All-Stars are taking on the challenge everyday to disrupt our industry –  and the future. 

Our global workforce is supported by a competitive Total Rewards program that reflects our commitment to a rewarding and supportive work environment. This includes a variety of benefits like competitive pay, attractive stock grants, flexible paid time off, and more. 

We are committed to fostering an intentional, inclusive, and diverse culture that drives deep engagement, authentic belonging, and an exceptional All-Star experience. We believe that diversity of thought, perspective, background and experience will enable us to own what we do, drive our success and empower our All-Stars to show up authentically.

Starburst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.