Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Hue

Cloudera•Austin, TX

1d•Remote

About The Position

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. 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. One of our products, Hue, is a mature open-source SQL Assistant for querying Databases & Data Warehouses and collaboration. Many companies and organizations use Hue to quickly answer questions via self-service querying. The Data Warehouse Experience team is seeking passionate developers to join our distributed engineering team. Our mission is to make data warehousing simple and innovative for end users, working on software development, testing, user experience, distributed systems, and scalability.You will architect and implement applications within Hue, part of Cloudera Enterprise, which includes CDP Data Platform (CDPD), the world’s leading open-source data platform for mission-critical environments, as well as CDP/Data Warehouse on the public cloud. We have already released the next generation of SQL experience using container-native Hadoop services to work in a Kubernetes cluster.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and 7+ years of experience; OR Master’s degree and 5+ years of experience; OR PhD and 3+ years of experience.
Attention to details and ability to build reliable and scalable software systems.
4+ years of experience in development and test.
Effective communication and collaboration skills.
Strong development and system skills.
Strong critical & analytical skills.
Experience developing in Python.
Web development framework experience (React, Vue, Angular etc.).
Comfortable with HTML and CSS.
Comfortable with security.

Nice To Haves

Comfortable with the Web/RPC stacks in a Cloud world
Working knowledge of Kubernetes and microservices-based application design
Experience in developing continuous integration pipelines

Responsibilities

Drive Hue’s architecture and technical strategy to deliver a secure, scalable, and extensible data productivity interface for enterprise analytics.
Lead core feature development across SQL editing, data catalog exploration, visualization, workflow orchestration, and practitioner productivity tooling.
Define and execute the AI roadmap for Hue, incorporating Cloudera SQL AI, natural-language query experiences, contextual copilots, and retrieval-augmented analytics.
Advance intelligent SQL assistance and automation by designing foundational capabilities for query generation, optimization suggestions, and semantic data understanding.
Champion engineering excellence through robust testing, performance optimization, observability, and enterprise-grade reliability.
Mentor engineers and lead cross-functional collaboration with product, UX, data platform, and other teams to influence long-term strategic direction.