Senior Software Engineer, Cloudera

• Bachelor’s with 5+ years (or Master’s with 3+ years) of industry experience, including 3+ years building scalable, high-performance large-scale systems
• Proven expertise in Java (preferred) or other OOP languages, with strong skills in data structures, algorithms, and clean coding habits
• Solid understanding of public cloud concepts (AWS/Azure/GCP) with experience in cloud storage integration and access-control APIs
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization mechanisms specifically for public cloud deployments
• Strong debugging skills in Java environments, including experience analyzing logs, thread dumps, and heap dumps
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams
• Strong oral and written communication skills with a sharp attention to detail and a focus on software quality

Desirable

• As we continue to innovate, we are building next-generation capabilities to enable seamless data sharing between CDP-hosted datasets and external applications
• This requires engineers who can design and develop highly scalable enterprise products that bridge distributed computation and storage—spanning public cloud (S3, ADLS) and high-performance on-prem systems like Ozone or Dell ECS
• If you enjoy solving complex interoperability challenges at a massive scale, this is the team for you
• Develop and support a highly scalable Catalog service built around the Apache Iceberg REST specification for Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) across hybrid cloud environments
• Design and develop a Unified Catalog service that serves as a single endpoint for segregated data sets
• Contribute to premier open-source projects, building the tools that define how the industry interacts with large-scale unstructured data
• Work daily with a high-impact stack featuring Apache Iceberg, Spark, Impala, and Hive
• Work on supporting customer deployments, escalations and improving stability of the product