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Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.\nThe 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.\n\nJoin the forefront of Big Data innovation at Cloudera! We are seeking a visionary Staff Engineer to take ownership of the next generation of our enterprise-grade Apache Iceberg distribution. This is a rare opportunity to architect, design, and scale the system that powers data processing for the world's largest companies, managing petabytes of data across thousands of nodes. If you are an experienced leader in distributed systems and data processing, ready to drive massive impact and define the future of Data Engineering, your mission starts here.\nThis is your chance to architect solutions that are responsible for managing Petabyte (PB) sized datasets across multi-cloud environments. You will gain deep technical experience in complex big data use cases and seize the unique opportunity to become a core contributor to the vibrant Apache Iceberg open-source community and directly influence the project's evolution.\nAs a Staff Engineer you will:\nDrive the future of data architecture by becoming a core contributor to Apache Iceberg, the open-source project defining modern data lakes.\nBring performance improvements to all of the engines in the Cloudera stack, by implementing new features in Iceberg and working with other teams to leverage them during queries.\nWork with Product Managers and Customers to determine ways Iceberg can be improved for Modern Data Lakes.\nDevelop new features in Java on a modern platforms\nGain a solid understanding and deep technical knowledge of components across the Cloudera stack, but focusing on Iceberg, which you can utilize in your daily tasks.\nGet to work on massive-scale distributed systems, spanning from 100s to 1000s of nodes in production clusters, leveraging Iceberg's capabilities for handling PB-scale data architectures.\nDebug system level deployment issues, root cause analysis, perform system test analysis and resolve failures.\nCollaborate with other team members and stakeholders.\nWe are excited if you have (Required Experience):\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and 6+ years of experience; OR Master’s degree and 4-6 years of experience; OR PhD and 2-4 years of experience\nHands-on programmer with solid data-structures and algorithms\nExperience with systems design, development\nStrong understanding of at least one of the following languages: Java, Scala, C++, Python. And interested to learn the languages we’re using.\nPassionate about programming, clean coding habits, attention to detail, and focus on quality\nStrong ability to research and solve problems independently without constant supervision\nAbility to work effectively both independently and as part of an international and virtual team\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills\n(Most importantly) Open-minded attitude, desire to learn new things and build great products\nYou might have:\nExperience with using/developing Apache Iceberg or other related technologies\nExperience (or demonstrated interest) in distributed computing or high availability systems\nContributions to open-source projects\nExperience with SQL optimization, from analyzing query plans to implementing optimization in SQL engines\nWhy this role matters:\nYou 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. 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