Starburst · 2 days ago
Senior Manager Engineering - Control Plane
Boston, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$210K/yr - $250K/yr
8+ years expStarburst is a data platform for analytics and AI, helping organizations unlock their data's full potential. They are seeking a Senior Manager of Engineering - Control Plane to lead and grow a team responsible for developing their SaaS platform, ensuring operational excellence and high performance.
AnalyticsBig DataDatabaseInformation TechnologyOpen SourceSoftware
Responsibilities
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
Drive and deliver the vision for serverless SaaS and end to end functionality for data lake analytics platform covering ingestion, data management and governance
Help employees grow through career development, coaching, and mentoring while guiding senior contributors to maximize their potential. You'll provide a clear path for progression through personal development plans, defining goals, performing evaluations, and collaborating with employees on their objectives. Most of all, ensure employees are having fun with their work
Own, operate, and maintain your team’s services. Employ Agile methodologies to continuously deliver value to customers. Enhance and maintain a rotating on-call incident escalation and response process
Represent your team’s operational maturity to Starburst’s executives and product teams across the company
Collaborate on roadmaps with Product Managers and Tech Leads to ensure the team has clear direction and priorities
Act as an ambassador for Starburst, recruiting and motivating top talent
Qualification
Required
4+ years of engineering management experience with a total of 8 years or more experience
You have a track record of leading distributed systems engineering and operations teams in software companies
You have demonstrated expertise in building and running a platform in multiple locations at Billions of events/week or greater scale either on-premise or in public cloud
Specific expertise in Highly Available data architectures across multiple availability zones is highly desired
You are passionate about engineering hygiene and operational excellence
You have the know-how to build an engineering organization that delivers it
You are familiar with agile processes, continuous integration, and test automation
You are a strategic thinker as it relates to scale and removing humans from the loop
You thrive when operating in broad scope, from conception through the continuous operation of 24x7 services to defined SLA's
You distill complex and ambiguous situations into actionable plans for your team
You represent your customers' perspectives
You plan for how they will be impacted by the services you build, and you always work to enable their success
Ability to Travel: This role will require occasional in-person travel for purposes including but not limited to new hire onboarding, team and department offsites, customer engagements, and other company events
Benefits
Equity packages (ISOs)
Comprehensive benefits offering
Competitive pay
Attractive stock grants
Flexible paid time off
Company
Starburst
Starburst offers a data lakehouse platform unifying access to distributed data across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$414MKey Investors
CitiAlkeon CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2025-05-19Series Unknown
2022-02-09Series D· $250M
2021-01-06Series C· $100M
Leadership Team
Justin Borgman
Chairman & CEO
Anu Sudarsan
Staff Software Engineer and Co-founder
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