Staff & Sr. Software Engineer -- Streaming/Flink

Role Description

At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. Our Data Services Pillar is the heart of data innovation. We build technology to empower data practitioners by creating seamless, enterprise-grade experiences for data engineering, warehousing, streaming, operational databases, and AI.

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 Streaming Analytics platform is based on Apache Flink and other open source technologies.

As a Senior or Staff engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Implementing, testing and delivering new features and improvements in the Cloudera Streaming product domain.
• Building containers, operators and jobs that run on Kubernetes to integrate distributed data platform solutions into Cloudera’s containerized product family.
• Contributing to a cross-functional software development team, covering all aspects of the development lifecycle to ensure high-quality, secure, and maintainable software.
• Mastering the delivery pipeline to ensure frequent and reliable delivery leveraging AI and modern engineering toolbox.
• Collaborating in a cross-functional team with product management, support, UX, and documentation teams to deliver successful projects with agile mindset and strong ownership.
• Providing support to our field team and customers, facilitating product adoption, smooth implementation and troubleshooting of use cases.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with Apache Flink.
• Project experience using containerization orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Operators, CRDs, etc.).
• Deep expertise in Java with strong familiarity of the Java ecosystem and frameworks (Spring, Quarkus, Hibernate, Maven, Gradle, etc.).
• Good understanding of software design and architecture principles.
• Ability to produce clean, maintainable code and attitude to create high quality software.
• Experience with delivery pipeline tools, CI/CD solutions, automated testing and agentic development.
• Self-driven and highly motivated, with a strong sense of ownership and craftsmanship.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, and/or 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong written and verbal English and communication skills.

Requirements

• Experience with Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Familiarity with other distributed data technologies like Apache Kafka, Nifi or Spark.
• Expertise in Scala, Python or Go.
• Experience with React, HTML, and CSS to better collaborate in UI development.
• Ability to design and implement delivery pipelines.

Benefits

• Generous PTO Policy.
• Support work life balance with Unplugged Days.
• Flexible WFH Policy.
• Mental & Physical Wellness programs.
• Phone and Internet Reimbursement program.
• Access to Continued Career Development.
• Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages.
• Paid Volunteer Time.
• Employee Resource Groups.