Staff Data Engineer - AI Platform
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Own performance tuning on the StarRocks serving layer using AI-assisted query profiling to fix slow patterns before they become customer-facing incidents. Build and harden data pipelines feeding government cloud investigations, leveraging AI code review workflows to ship reliable changes in a high-compliance environment. Reduce single-point-offailure risk by becoming the second engineer capable of independently operating and troubleshooting the serving layer, cutting incident response time when the primary owner is unavailable. Use AI-assisted debugging and log analysis to triage production issues, turning multi-hour investigations into rapid root-cause fixes. This role requires U.S. citizenship and hands-on experience with distributed OLAP systems like StarRocks or Trino. You will work within a distributed, high-velocity team focused on national security and crime disruption, where decisions are made close to the data and AI fluency is a baseline expectation.
Required Qualifications
- U.S. citizenship
- Hands-on experience operating distributed OLAP or serving-layer systems (StarRocks, Trino, ClickHouse, or similar), including query tuning and performance optimization at scale
- Experience owning data pipeline reliability and incident response
- Comfort using AI tools (Claude, Cursor, or similar) to accelerate debugging, code review, and documentation
- Independent ownership mindset: ability to pick up an unfamiliar piece of production infrastructure, use AI-assisted research and code exploration to ramp quickly, and take on-call responsibility with minimal oversight
- Ability to operate with a high degree of ambiguity
- High level of personal ownership and accountability
- Close collaboration across teams and functions
- Frequent, high-touch communication
- Creative problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking
- Comfort navigating ambiguity, adjusting course as new information emerges, and maintaining focus and positivity in a fast-moving and intense environment
- Ability to thrive in a high velocity, high ownership team that expects clarity, follow-through, and impact
- People who are energized by hard problems, experimentation, and continuous feedback
- AI fluency: ability to apply AI to accelerate repeatable workflows, structure and solve problems, improve output quality, and increase speed and leverage
- Impact-Oriented Trailblazer mindset: treating every plan like an experiment – test, ship, measure, and iterate quickly
- Master Craftsperson mindset: balancing speed with high standards, owning outcomes end-to-end, and investing in getting better everyday
- Inspiring Colleague mindset: bringing humility, candor, and a one-team mindset — giving and receiving feedback to make the team stronger
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