Senior/Staff Engineer, Be Bi

TL;DR

Senior/Staff Engineer, BE BI: Designing, building, and operating hirify.global’s high‑performance analytics platform that powers BI and product decisioning at scale with an accent on scalable, low‑latency analytical services with high concurrency and sub‑second query performance. Focus on extending StarRocks capabilities and improving platform reliability and efficiency.

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Company

hirify.global bridges the world through travel, offering great deals across millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and operate StarRocks clusters to support high concurrency and sub‑second analytical queries at scale.
• Plan and execute StarRocks upgrades and patch rollouts with minimal downtime.
• Develop features, extensions, and performance improvements to increase StarRocks stability and throughput and contribute upstream when broadly useful.
• Build backend services and tooling around StarRocks for ingestion, connectors, governance, and observability.
• Automate operations (provisioning, autoscaling, backup/restore, upgrades) using Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, BI, and Product on data modeling and semantic layers.

Requirements

• 6+ years of backend engineering and/or distributed systems experience.
• Expert proficiency in modern C++ (C++17/20), especially for performance‑critical systems.
• Strong foundations in algorithms, concurrency, networking, and Linux systems.
• Hands-on experience with at least one MPP/OLAP system such as StarRocks, ClickHouse, Presto/Trino, Druid, Pinot, Doris, Impala, etc.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Helm/Ansible).
• Strong communication skills and ability to partner effectively across platform, BI, and infrastructure teams.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with StarRocks internals (FE/BE), materialized views, tablet management, and Lakehouse/Iceberg integration.
• Contributions to open-source OLAP/DBMS projects (StarRocks or related ecosystems).
• Experience building streaming ingestion (Kafka, Flink) and batch ingestion (Spark) into OLAP stores.
• Familiarity with cloud object storage and Lakehouse table formats (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi) and S3/GCS-compatible storage.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global prides itself on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations.
• Prioritizes attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation.
• Committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.