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Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world's largest enterprises.\r\nBusiness Area: Engineering\r\nSeniority Level: Mid-Senior level\r\nJob Description: 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.\r\nRole Overview: Cloudera is seeking a Technical Lead, Spark (Java) with strong distributed systems expertise to work on the Cloudera distribution of Apache Spark and Livy . The role involves building enterprise-grade systems for customers running Spark on thousands of nodes and processing petabytes of data.\r\nWe are looking for a passionate engineer eager to enhance a product already supporting major production systems and to drive the next-generation Data Engineering experience. You will collaborate with a distributed team across the United States and Hungary, including multiple Apache Spark committers.\r\nThis role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.\r\nAs a Technical Lead, Spark (Java), you will…\r\nDesign new features for Cloudera's data engineering experience, and take them from prototypes to leading a team to deliver the feature in production at scale.\r\nContribute to Apache Spark, Livy.\r\nDevelop new features in Scala/Java/Python on modern platforms.\r\nGain expertise in distributed data processing, from SQL planners and optimizers to data layout and table formats like Apache Parquet and Iceberg, to fault tolerance in distributed systems.\r\nGain a solid understanding and deep technical knowledge of components across the Cloudera Data Engineering Experience stack, but focusing on Iceberg and Spark, which you can utilize in your daily tasks.\r\nGet to work on large-scale distributed systems, from 100s to 1000s of nodes, in production clusters.\r\nDebug system-level deployment issues, root cause analysis, perform system test analysis, and resolve failures.\r\nWork on improving internal infrastructure.\r\nCollaborate with other team members and stakeholders.\r\nWe are excited if you have…\r\n8–10+ years of professional software development.\r\nExperience leading and delivering complex product enhancements.\r\nA strong understanding of at least one of Java, Scala, Python, and an interest to learn the others.\r\nExperience with systems design and development.\r\nPassionate about programming, clean coding habits, attention to detail, and focus on quality.\r\nStrong oral and written communication skills.\r\nStrong ability to research and solve problems independently without constant supervision.\r\nOpen-minded, desire to learn new things and build great products.\r\nExperience with distributed systems.\r\nYou may also have…\r\nExperience with SQL planners.\r\nExperience with using/developing Apache Spark, Livy or other related technologies.\r\nExperience with large-scale, distributed systems design and development with an understanding of scaling, performance, and scheduling.\r\nSolid experience with at least one cloud.\r\nContributors to open-source projects.\r\nWhy this role matters: You will tackle complex distributed systems challenges, crafting the foundational software for the control and data planes that power CDP and keep it running at massive scale. 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