Senior Software Engineer, Cloudera

• We are looking for a seasoned engineer who is familiar with databases, HPC, and distributed systems to help us drive innovation and maintain industry-leading performance of the Impala engine
• 5+ years of professional software development experience; a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is preferred
• Experience leading and delivering complex product enhancements
• Experience in writing high-performance, enterprise-quality code in C++ or Java
• Familiar with database concepts and Linux development environments
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and performance tuning skills
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable

• The Data Platform Pillar is the bedrock of Cloudera’s technology, where we design and build the core components that let our customers store, manage, and process data with unmatched scalability, security, and performance
• Impala is an established SQL Data Warehouse engine that facilitates low-latency analytical queries on petabyte-scale data. Impala is employed by many fortune 500 companies for a wide range of analytic workloads, from subsecond interactive dashboards with hundreds of concurrent users to rich data exploration
• Cloudera actively contributes to the open-source Impala project (http://impala.apache.org/) while also extending it to serve as the data warehousing component of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) and in containerized environments as Cloud Data Warehouse (CDW)
• Design and implement query engine components for low latency and scalability
• Lead projects in adding new functionality in distributed systems and dealing with concepts of performance, fault-tolerance
• Design and implement Impala features in both the on-premise and cloud space
• Contribute to productivity, process and infrastructure improvement
• Work with product managers and customers to understand requirements
• Analyze large-scale distributed systems to identify performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, failure points, and security holes
• Formulate and present your architecture and design documents internally and to the open source community
• Contribute to software productivity process and infrastructure improvements
• Publicize Impala through blogs and conference presentations