Senior Software Engineer

Cloudera is a leading data partner that empowers organizations to transform complex data into actionable insights. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and implement components for the Impala query engine, contribute to distributed systems, and collaborate with product managers to enhance performance and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Prior involvement in open source community, especially related Apache technologies
• Experience with data warehouse and/or database internals
• Experience with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and cloud object storage