Starburst Enterprise Platform / Apache Trino · Remote, United States

| | | |---|---| | Role | Senior Data Engineer + Platform Administrator | | Practice | Data Engineering — Starburst / Trino federated lakehouse | | Location | United States — remote | | Hours | US business hours; US Eastern (ET) preferred | | Engagement | Contract — initial term with extension by mutual agreement | | Openings | 1 | | Experience | 8+ years, including 2+ years hands-on with Trino or Presto in production |

About the role

Triade is building an integrated delivery squad for a Starburst Enterprise Platform (SEP) / Apache Trino engagement with a US enterprise client in financial services. This is one team supporting one customer — not a set of isolated contract hires.

The squad delivers across two tracks: the data layer (Trino federation and the Iceberg lakehouse) and the access and reporting layer (BI and the semantic layer). Materialized views on Apache Iceberg are the shared hand-off between them, so the two tracks work in step rather than in sequence.

What you will own

You are the hands-on owner of the federated lakehouse platform — designing and building on it, and administering the clusters it runs on. You break down data silos with federated query, so the client gets high-performance SQL across cloud and on-premise sources without heavy ETL.

• Architect, configure, and manage Starburst / Trino clusters and connectors; build federated data pipelines and data products that serve BI and self-service analytics.
• Administer the platform on Kubernetes with Helm — catalogs, connectors, and Dev / QA / Prod separation — owning monitoring, tuning, and availability.
• Implement and optimise materialized views on Apache Iceberg, the shared hand-off into the BI track.
• Own platform security and governance: access control, data masking, and row- and column-level security via Starburst controls or Apache Ranger, with secrets managed in Vault.
• Create data models; develop, unit- and integration-test, deploy, and support components through CI/CD; support UAT and Dev→Prod release.
• Produce enablement content and documentation, and provide daily and weekly status.

What you bring

• Experience — 8+ years in data engineering at a senior level, including 2+ years hands-on managing and optimising Apache Trino or Presto in production.
• Data federation — architect, configure, and manage Starburst / Trino coordinator-worker clusters connecting AWS S3, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Teradata.
• Platform administration — deploy, configure, administer, and fine-tune Starburst Enterprise / Trino on Kubernetes (Helm): catalogs, connectors, environment separation, and platform health, availability, and observability.
• Performance — tune query execution plans, distributed joins, cluster scaling, and memory allocation for low-latency analytics.
• Lakehouse — implement and optimise open-table formats, principally Apache Iceberg (Delta and Hive where relevant), and maintain materialized views as the hand-off to BI.
• Security & governance — fine-grained access control, data masking, and row- and column-level security using Starburst controls or Apache Ranger; secrets management such as Vault.
• Advanced SQL — window functions, CTEs, and tuning of distributed query joins.
• Cloud & IaC — AWS, GCP, or Azure with cloud object storage (S3 / ADLS); Kubernetes and Helm, Docker, and Terraform.
• Data modeling — data-warehousing fundamentals, star and snowflake schemas, and lakehouse and data-mesh architectures.
• Programming — Python and PySpark.

Nice to have

• Java or Scala, particularly for Trino connector work.
• Relevant cloud or data platform certification.
• Prior delivery into a regulated financial-services environment.

How we work

• Fully remote within the United States, aligned to US business hours — US Eastern preferred.
• Daily stand-up reporting: Done / Next / Blockers.
• Weekly status: summary of work delivered, hours utilised, next-week plan, and open risks.
• Occasional travel to the client site or a Triade office as the engagement requires.

Compensation & engagement

• Rate — USD 60–75 per hour, negotiable based on experience.
• Engagement type — 1099 independent contractor. Initial term with extension by mutual agreement.
• Work authorization — applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship, now or in the future. Triade does not sponsor or transfer employment visas for this role.
• How to apply — apply directly through this posting.

Details

Triade is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.