Staff Software Engineer - Control Plane

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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. 

Cloudera is looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join the Control Plane and Identity and Access Management development team, part of its Cloudera Data Platform service. This team delivers identity and permissions related capabilities to the control plane and workload clusters deployed to the three public cloud platforms - AWS, Azure and GCP. The workload clusters are clusters with big data workloads like Hive, Spark, Impala, Kudu, Kafka, and NiFi with security and governance controls of Ranger and Atlas applied to the identities federated from enterprise IDPs. The challenges include managing cloud infrastructure that represents the identities of the users, services, the credentials used to access resources of the platform and roles that enable various levels of access to those resources. Important goals for this team are for providing solutions with a concern for scalability, security and a cohesive identity substrate across the entire platform.

We look for "The Startup Spark", a desire to create new things, dive in wherever there's a need, eagerness to make an impact as an individual and the willingness to learn new things. You must be self-motivated, innovative, and proactive. The role offers significant opportunities for growth.

As a Staff Software Engineer you will:

• Be a technology leader and demonstrate ownership of critical platform services

• Gathering functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning 

• Responsible for the design and development of the project 

• Responsible for quality,  engineering and operational excellence of the project

• Designing/developing web services with high availability and resiliency 

• Resolve defects/bugs during system testing, pre-production, production, and post release patches 

• Roughly 80% hands-on coding 

• Work cross-functionally with various teams: product management, QE, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results 

We are excited if you have (Required Experience):

• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience 

• 5+ years for experience in Server Side Technologies

• Strong Java, Java EE skills but other languages such as C, C++, C#, Go, etc will be considered as well

• Experience building scalable, robust and secure Enterprise applications

• Understanding of the Software design/architecture process 

• Self-driven and motivated, with a strong sense of ownership and craftsmanship

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Experience with containerization (Kubernetes) 

You may also have:

• Experience with Apache Hadoop stack

• Experience with various authentication and authorization technologies, Azure AD, AWS IAM, Kerberos, OAuth 2, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, etc

• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Why this role matters: 

You will tackle complex distributed systems challenges, crafting the foundational software for the control and data planes that powers CDP and keeps it running at massive scale. Working at the forefront of hybrid and multi-cloud technology, you will empower data scientists, engineers, and analysts with the tools and infrastructure they need for advanced analytics and modeling.

 Collaboration is key, you will work alongside brilliant minds across product, data science, and engineering to drive innovation, standardize best practices, and shape the future of enterprise AI and data platforms. This is your chance to build the future of data and see your work make a global impact.

What you can expect from us:

• 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

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