Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer at Cloudera, you will design and own high-performance Rust infrastructure that sits in the data path across Kubernetes-based environments. You’ll shape security-critical systems, define architecture, and drive cross-team guidance to deliver scalable, low-latency data services. This is a hands-on, impact-focused role with a strong emphasis on correctness, security, and observability. Join a mission to enable 100% data access across hybrid clouds with a performance-first mindset.

Compensaciones / Beneficios

- Generous PTO Policy
- Adaptable WFH Policy
- Unplugged Days
- Mental & Physical Wellness programs
- Phone and Internet Reimbursement
- Continued Career Development

Responsabilidades

- Build and own Rust-based infrastructure services (reverse proxies, credential brokers, log collectors) in the data path, from design to production
- Implement and verify authentication and access control with thorough testing (property-based and fuzz tests)
- Design new infrastructure components, define module boundaries and memory budgets, document tradeoffs
- Develop distributed telemetry and log collection, with structured tracing and health endpoints




- Provide cross-team systems guidance, conduct performance reviews, advise on streaming patterns and caching
- Drive design documents for new components, evaluate make-vs-buy decisions, define testing strategies

Requisitos principales

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- ≥3 years building performance-critical or security-critical systems (proxies, storage engines, network services)
- Production Rust experience, async Rust, multi-crate workspaces, tokio/hyper ecosystem
- Strong networking, memory management, streaming/backpressure, concurrency fundamentals
- Security-focused development with authentication protocols and secure input handling
- Kubernetes experience, operator pattern, Helm, cloud-native infra
- Advanced testing approaches (property-based testing, integration testing, fuzz testing)
- Bsc/Msc in a related field or equivalent experience

- cross-team collaboration
- systems thinking
- attention to security and correctness
- Rust production services
- async Rust, tokio, hyper
- Kubernetes deployment and operation

📌 Staff Software Engineer, Anywhere Cloud (Rust & Kubernetes) (Barcelona)
🏢 Cloudera
📍 Barcelona