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Staff Software Engineer

Cloudera
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 4/18/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/17/2026
Business Area:

Engineering

Seniority Level:

Mid-Senior level

Job Description:

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.

Staff Software Engineer

Cloudera is looking for a software engineer to join the Ranger Engineering team within SDX (Shared Data Experience) Services organization to define, drive, develop and maintain Ranger products enabling data security for Cloudera Data Platform.

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

About SDX:

The data usage in enterprises today is growing both in size and complexity. There is a need for a consistent experience of data across the different usage patterns of data— be it data warehousing, machine learning, etc. Cloudera's enterprise data platform (CDP) is uniquely positioned to provide this shared data experience (SDX).

https://www.cloudera.com/products/sdx.html

About Ranger:

Apache Ranger™ is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform. It is the most popular open source product in the Hadoop ecosystem providing data access authorization for a variety of services. Apache Ranger provides a powerful extensible framework to enable data security.

https://ranger.apache.org/

About the team:

You will be working with a team responsible for designing, building, and delivering features across Ranger products. The primary responsibility of the team is to provide high-quality Ranger service in our CDP products (Public Cloud, Private Cloud Base and other deployments). The engineering team works on extending Apache Ranger to meet the needs of enterprise customers such as cross-data center replication, scalability, performance, security policy management, etc.

This role requires a startup mindset to build features incrementally and pivot according to feedback from customers and clients. You will have to work in close collaboration with engineers from globally-distributed teams, product managers and UX designers. You must be willing to learn new things, be self-motivated, innovative and proactive.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Cloudera you will:

  • Develop cross-product features to enable shared data experience for enterprise customers in various deployment settings (including multiple cloud providers - AWS/Azure/GCP).
  • Design, code, and implement elegant, scalable, enterprise-quality software.
  • Work iteratively in an Agile development environment
  • Build strong relationships and collaborate with platform and UI engineers, quality engineers, and UX designers as well as with Product Management, Field Engineering, and other external partners


We are excited if you have (Required Experience):

  • Relevant studies / BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.
  • 8 years of software engineering experience developing products and/or platforms for internal or external customers
  • Experience with back-end platform and server technologies using at least one of these languages - Java, C , Python.
  • Experience with REST API, Microservices development and technologies.
  • Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, GCE, Azure)
  • Relational database proficiency, including ER modeling and performance optimization (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
  • Development experience in Linux environments.
  • Experience with collaboration tools (e.g., Jenkins, Jira)
  • Familiarity with additional development tools such as JUnit, Maven & Jenkins.
  • Self-driven and motivated, with a strong sense of ownership and craftsmanship
  • Strong written and oral communication skills and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to understand and address complex problems and systems.
  • Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.


You might also have:

  • Experience (or demonstrated interest) in distributed computing or high availability systems
  • Big Data / NoSQL / distributed database experience
  • Previous open source contribution
  • Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes.
  • Experience building scalable, robust and secure Enterprise applications.


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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