Technical Support Engineer
- Salary
- $120,000 - $160,000
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 3 November 2026.
About the role
Starburst's standard text
About 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.
Job Summary
The Technical Support Engineer (TSE) acts as a Starburst SME for a book of Majors and Strategic accounts. The TSE is responsible for answering all technical questions within both standard and custom deployment environments and assisting with supported LTS upgrades. The TSE is also responsible for peer training and development, personal continued education, and contributing to our reference documentation. They will coordinate closely with Support leadership, Engineering, Product and Accounts teams to ensure our customers receive a value driven enterprise experience.
Responsibilities
Technical Support:
- Provide support for standard and custom deployments
- Answer break/fix and non-break/fix technical questions through SFDC ticketing system
- Efficiently reproduce reported issues by leveraging tools (minikube, minitrino, docker-compose, etc.), identify root causes, and provide solutions
- Open SEP and Galaxy bug reports in Jira and feature requests in Aha!
LTS Upgrades:
- Provide upgrade support upon customer request
- Customer must be on a supported LTS version at the time of request
- TSE must communicate unsupported LTS requests to the Account team as these require PS services
Monthly Technical check-insConduct regularly scheduled technical check-ins with each BU
- Discuss open support tickets, provide updates on product bugs and provide best practice recommendations based on your observations and ticket trends
- Responsible for ensuring customer environments are on supported LTS versions
Knowledge Sharing/Technical Enablement: Knowledge exchange and continued technical enablement are crucial for the development of our team and the customer experience. It's essential that we keep our product expertise and documentation current and that all team members have access to information.
- Contribute to our reference documentation
- Lead peer training
- Consultant to our content teams
- Own your personal technical education journey
Project Involvement
- Contribute to or drive components of departmental and cross functional initiatives
Partner with Leadership
- Identify areas of opportunity with potential solutions for inefficiencies or obstacles within the team and cross-functionally
- Provide feedback to your manager on continued ed. opportunities, project ideas, etc.
Requirements
- 5+ years of support experience
- 3+ years of Big Data, Docker, Kubernetes and cloud technologies experience
- Ability to Travel: This role will require 25% 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.
Skills
- Big Data (Hadoop, Data Lakes, Spark)
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Security - Authentication (LDAP, OAuth2.0) and Authorization technologies
- SSL/TLS
- Linux Skills
- DBMS Concepts/SQL Exposure Languages: SQL, Java, Python, Bash
Location: PST
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 training, and specific work location. For more information, connect with the recruiting team or Hiring Manager during the process as they can provide more detailed information about the salary range.
Pay Range
$120,000—$160,000 USD
Build your career at Starburst
Starburst's standard text
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.
Starburst's standard text
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.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Hadoop · Jira · OAuth
Rare in Starburst's other 22 open postings.
In most of Starburst's ads
Apache Iceberg · Java · Trino
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
70% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Starburst's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with Starburst's other open jobs.
The team: Support
This role is one of 3 open in Support. 3 were posted in the last 30 days.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Apache Iceberg (3 of 3), AWS (3 of 3), Azure (3 of 3), Bash (3 of 3), Docker (3 of 3), GCP (3 of 3), Hadoop (3 of 3)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Customer Support Engineer posted Oct 27
- Customer Support Engineer posted Oct 21
From the team and dates on Starburst's own job board.
Salary context
30 other open postings titled Technical Support Engineer state a salary: median USD 90,000 to USD 111,160 a year.
Similar jobs
- Senior Software Engineer - Ads Analytics at Roku
Shares 11 skills: Trino, Hadoop, Spark… · Senior level · same country - AI Solutions Architect at Neo4j
Shares 11 skills: Hadoop, Spark, Docker… · same country - Senior Data Streaming Engineer at Bank of America
Shares 10 skills: Apache Iceberg, Hadoop, Spark… · Senior level · same country - Senior Software Engineer- Big Data & Java at PointClickCare
Shares 13 skills: Trino, Hadoop, OAuth… · Senior level - Data Architect at West Monroe
Shares 10 skills: Hadoop, Spark, Docker… · same country - Customer Support Engineer at Starburst
Also at this company
More jobs like this
Is this your posting? Email info@careerholo.com to have it removed.