Cloudera is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the OpDB (Operational Database) team to develop, distribute, and support Cloudera Operational Database, Apache HBase, Phoenix, ZooKeeper, and related projects, aiming to enhance product supportability, enterprise readiness, and feature richness.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering skill set with expertise in Java, or strong C++ skills, with intermediate Java expertise
- Solid experience with system software design and development with a strong understanding of computer architecture, storage, network, and IO subsystems, and distributed systems
- Hands-on programmer with strong data structures and algorithms skillset
- Experience working in Linux environments
- Strong background in a distributed database systems, including database storage internals, NoSQL storage
- Strong background in performance tuning, identifying performance bottlenecks, and implementing performance optimizations
- Strong understanding of the Apache Big Data ecosystem and over 3+ years of experience in database systems
Responsibilities
- Be directly involved in the design and implementation of the core feature set of Apache HBase, Apache Phoenix, Cloudera Operational Database and related projects.
- Help develop our roadmap by identifying issues and bottlenecks, analyzing and implementing changes and fixes in the components, increasing their overall robustness and reliability for the whole of the Apache community
- As part of OpDB engineering, you will support enterprise customers running 100s of petabytes-scale operational database systems.
- Partner with Engineering leaders, product managers, and cross-functional teams as a part of the Cloudera ecosystem in understanding requirements and turning them into a solid design and implementation, and facilitating integration and adoption.
- Integrate the latest changes from Apache HBase, Phoenix and ZooKeeper into our distribution
- Additionally, in this role, you will be responsible for leading a talented group of engineers working on the feature and mentoring junior engineers.
- Work together with your teammates in all locations and with other component developers, making sure that our solutions operate flawlessly in the platform.
Other
- 10+ years of experience
- Passion about programming. Clean coding habits, attention to detail, and focus on quality
- Good verbal and written communication skills in English
- Solid interpersonal skills conducive to a distributed team environment
- Ability to take ownership for large scale projects and leadership skills to drive them to success
