Business Area:
Engineering
Seniority Level:
Mid-Senior level
Job Description:

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.
Cloudera is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Spark (Java) with strong distributed systems expertise to work on the Cloudera distribution of Apache Spark and Livy. The role involves building enterprise-grade systems for customers running Spark on thousands of nodes and processing petabytes of data.
We are looking for a passionate engineer eager to enhance a product already supporting major production systems and to drive the next-generation Data Engineering experience. You will collaborate with a distributed team across the United States and Hungary, including multiple Apache Spark committers.

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship or relocation.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will:
- Design new features for Cloudera’s data engineering experience,



and take them from prototypes to leading a team to deliver the feature in production at scale
- Contribute to Apache Spark, Livy
- Develop new features in Scala/Java/Python on a modern platforms
- Gain expertise in distributed data processing, from SQL planners and optimizers, to data layout and table formats like Apache Parquet and Iceberg, to fault tolerance in distributed systems.
- Gain a solid understanding and deep technical knowledge of components across the Cloudera Data Engineering Experience stack, but focusing on Iceberg and Spark, which you can utilize in your daily tasks
- Get to work on large scale distributed systems, from 100s to 1000s of nodes, in production clusters
- Debug system level deployment issues, root cause analysis, perform system test analysis and resolve failures
- Work on improving internal infrastructure
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

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📌 Technical Lead, Spark (Barcelona)
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