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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.

We are looking for passionate software engineers for our Stream-Processing Platform Engineering Team in Hungary/US. Our team is responsible for the development and maintenance of Streams Messaging products of Cloudera (featuring Kafka) and making it easily usable by the customers of our platform. Kafka is a general-purpose distributed messaging/streaming technology designed for low latency, high throughput, massive scalability and high reliability. Kafka is the fundamental streaming technology in our platform to ingest, process and analyze large scale message streams.

As a Senior Software Engineer you will…

• Expertise in the Kafka ecosystem and large scale stream processing and become the go-to person in a wide range of questions related to the technology

• Identify improvement areas to make Kafka more robust and more supportable and more secure resulting in an enterprise grade distribution of Kafka for our customers

• Extend monitoring and management capabilities of our platform to make Kafka easy to adopt and operate

• Modify and update software application after delivery to correct errors and to improve performance

• Develop and maintain automated tests, their associated frameworks, tools, and processes

• Lead projects and coordinate with other engineers and stakeholders internally and in the open-source community to analyze complex requirements, design,implement and test solutions

• Focus on both functional and non-functional aspects and deliver high-quality and secure products

• Help releasing our software

• Help customers adopting new versions of our software

• Help troubleshooting customer issues, find the root cause of complex technical problems and provide guidance to system engineers for fixing those in production systems

• Demonstrate an open, agile mindset, suggest and implement ideas to continuously improve processes used by the team in a collaborative manner

We are excited if you have …

• Relevant studies / BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.

• 4+ years of experience in designing, developing and testing software solutions

• Strong Java skills and proficiency with the whole Java ecosystem

• Experience in the Linux environment

• Experience with Kafka or other distributed messaging technology

• Experience with delivery pipeline tools, CI/CD solutions, automated testing

• Analytical mindset to be able to understand complex software systems

• Self-driven, proactive and motivated personality, with the ability to effectively work even on loosely defined tasks independently and in a team

• Open, agile attitude, focusing on continuous improvement

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

You may also have ...

• Experience with Kafka or other distributed messaging technology

• Experience in open-source software development

• Have been (or are interested in being) a contributor or “committer” to the Apache Kafka project

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCE)

• Experience with containerization orchestration technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm

• Big data experience

• Experience in designing, implementing and debugging multithreaded and distributed systems

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

Cloudera is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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