Business Area: Engineering | Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

Senior Staff Software Engineer – Spark (Java)

Cloudera empowers organizations to transform complex data into clear insights. This role focuses on the Cloudera distribution of Apache Spark and Livy, building enterprise‑grade systems that run on thousands of nodes and process petabytes of data.

Responsibilities

• Design and prototype new features for Cloudera’s data engineering experience, leading teams to production at scale.
• Contribute to core open‑source projects such as Apache Spark and Livy.
• Develop in Scala, Java, or Python on modern platforms.
• Gain expertise in distributed data processing, from SQL planners and optimizers to data layout and table formats (Parquet, Iceberg) and fault tolerance.
• Work on large‑scale distributed systems in production clusters, debugging deployment issues and performing root cause analysis.
• Improve internal ...