Staff Software Engineer

Cloudera

1d•Hybrid

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. Impala is an established SQL Data Warehouse engine that facilitates low-latency analytical queries on petabyte-scale data. Impala is employed by many fortune 500 companies for a wide range of analytic workloads, from subsecond interactive dashboards with hundreds of concurrent users to rich data exploration. Cloudera actively contributes to the open-source Impala project (http://impala.apache.org/) while also extending it to serve as the data warehousing component of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) and in containerized environments as Cloud Data Warehouse (CDW). We are looking for a seasoned engineer who is familiar with databases, HPC, and distributed systems to help us drive innovation and maintain industry-leading performance of the Impala engine. This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Requirements

8+ 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

Nice To Haves

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

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