Senior Software Engineer, Context Layer at StarburstStarburst · Boston, MA

Pay: USD 185,000–215,000 per yearly

Workplace: Remote

Type: fulltime

Posted: 2026-10-16

Skills: JavaAbout Starburst Starburst delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by giving organizations secure, governed access to all their data, wherever it lives. Built for distributed data environments, Starburst helps enterprises power AI and analytics without the cost and complexity of traditional data consolidation. With open standards including Trino and Apache Iceberg, Starburst enables trusted access to complete enterprise context while helping organizations avoid vendor lock-in. Leading global enterprises trust Starburst to fuel AI, analytics, and enterprise intelligence. Learn more at starburst.ai.About The Role Starburst's Enterprise Context Layer turns scattered data into governed, versioned Data Products — business definitions, access policy, and lineage built in — so BI tools, applications, and AI agents all work from the same trusted answer. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll build the backend services that harvest business context from where it already lives, govern it through a certification and versioning workflow, and serve it to both people and AI agents across the platform. This is a fast-evolving product area, so you'll have real influence over foundational architecture decisions rather than executing against a fully-specified spec. We're looking for builders with strong product instincts — engineers who care as much about the customer outcome as the technical solution, and who are comfortable moving across the stack when that's the fastest path to shipping value, even though the core of this role is Java-based backend work.As a Senior Software Engineer At Starburst You WillDesign, build, and operate backend services that collect and reconcile business context from a variety of existing systems into governed Context Studio. Build and evolve the certification and versioning workflow that lets teams trust a single definition of their metrics and data. Contribute to the APIs and MCP-based integrations that let AI agents and BI tools query c…Sign in to see the original postingBrowse more developer jobs on RoleBurst