Senior Software Engineer - Billing & Usage

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 role:

As a backend engineer for the Galaxy Product, you’ll work with Trino’s original creators and experts to exceed our customers’ expectations for optimizing the core of Trino to run on public clouds, building a scalable platform for operating Galaxy and providing a rich set of features for customers to manage their bills and understand their usage of the product.  Daily tasks will include developing new product features, supporting our product in production, and collaborating with stakeholders to support contracting and invoicing activities.

The Billing & Usage Team’s mission is to deliver transparent, accurate, and user-friendly billing and usage insights that build trust, enable customer control, and support scalable growth.

As a Backend Software Engineer at Starburst you will:

• Design, develop and operate features relating to collecting and presenting product usage data, preparing invoices, and billing our customers;
• Work cross functionally to ensure the best experience for our customers;
• Build and implement features across the product lifecycle, such as management tools for our internal deal desk, CI/CD pipeline integrations, integrations with 3rd party billing systems, and software libraries for transmitting usage telemetry;
• Provide considerate and timely review of your peers' pull requests and design proposals;
• Participate in the on-call rotation for our production services;

Some of the things we look for: 

• 5-10 years prior experience developing distributed systems;
• Extensive software development experience with Java;
• Demonstrated experience with software engineering and design best practices;
• Prior experience with usage-based billing, telemetry stream processing, or time series databases is highly desirable;
• While this is primarily a backend development role, full stack experience with ReactJS is a plus!
• Demonstration of ownership, grit, and bias for action - core values at Starburst
• 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. Actual travel expectations may vary by role and business needs.

Where could this role be based?

• This role is based in our Boston office and follows a hybrid model, with an expectation of being onsite 1-2 days per week.

Salary range:
Starburst is dedicated to maintaining fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range provided for this role reflects the minimum and maximum targets for candidates across all U.S. locations and could be inclusive of variable compensation, such as commission or bonus. All employees receive equity packages (ISOs) and have access to a comprehensive benefits offering. Actual compensation packages are determined based on relevant skills, experience, education and

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.