Staff & Sr. Software Engineer -- Streaming/Kafka
Business Area:
Engineering Seniority Level:
Mid-Senior level Job Description:
At Cloudera , we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.
Our Data Services Pillar is the heart of data innovation. We don’t just work with technology; we build it. Our mission is to empower data practitioners by creating seamless, enterprise-grade experiences for data engineering, warehousing, streaming, operational databases, and AI.
At Cloudera , we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.
Join our global Streaming Data Service where you will develop Cloudera ’s cloud-native, modular and containerized Streaming data platform empowering customers to create and deploy data-heavy streaming applications at scale. Our Streams Messaging platform is based on Apache Kafka, Strimzi, Cruise Control and other open source technologies. At Cloudera we are designing, building and delivering an enterprise-grade data platform enabling our customers to create, deploy streaming applications at scale.
As a Staff or Senior engineer, you will own and drive building features and services in the products owned by the team. You will collaborate and coordinate in a cross-functional team (Product, Backend and Frontend Engineering, UX) to ensure a smooth delivery of features and solutions. You ship production code, integrate components and deliver APIs required by customers that run data-heavy applications on the Cloudera streaming stack.
In this role you will:
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Implement, test and deliver new features and improvements in the Cloudera Streaming product domain
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Own features and provide technical leadership for other team members for aligned delivery.
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Build containers, operators and jobs that run on Kubernetes to integrate distributed data platform solutions into Cloudera ’s containerized product family
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Contribute to a cross-functional software development team, covering all aspects of the development lifecycle to ensure high-quality, secure, and maintainable software
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Master the delivery pipeline to ensure frequent and reliable delivery leveraging AI and modern engineering toolbox
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Collaborate in a cross-functional team with product management, support, UX, and documentation teams to deliver successful projects with agile mindset and strong ownership
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Provide support to our field team and customers, facilitating product adoption, smooth implementation and troubleshooting of use cases.
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Act as a technical leader in the team, mentoring juniors and actively contributing into team process improvements
We’re excited about you if you have:
- Deep experience with Apache Kafka.
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Project experience using containerization orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Operators, CRDs, etc.)
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Deep expertise in Java with strong familiarity of the Java ecosystem and frameworks (Spring, Quarkus, Hibernate, Maven, Gradle, etc.)
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Good understanding of software design and architecture principles.
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Ability to produce clean, maintainable code and attitude to create high quality software.
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Experience with delivery pipeline tools, CI/CD solutions, automated testing and agentic development
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Self-driven and highly motivated, with a strong sense of ownership and craftsmanship.
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Strong track record of complex software development projects, technical leadership and cross-team collaboration.
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BS/MS in Computer S