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.
At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera’s platforms excel at the high end of scale and price-performance and are used by the world’s largest businesses.
Cloudera is looking for an experienced performance Engineer to play a key role in driving performance and scale for our data warehouse offerings across multiple cloud providers.
As a Performance Engineer you will:
Work with internal development teams and the open source community to proactively drive performance improvements/optimizations across our data warehouse stack.
Work with product managers, developers and the field team to understand performance and scale requirements and customer workload characteristics, and develop benchmarks and related performance analysis tooling based on these requirements.
Analyze performance and scalability characteristics to identify bottlenecks in large-scale distributed systems.
Perform root cause analysis of performance issues identified by internal testing and from customers and suggest corrective actions.
Evaluate performance of competitor systems.
We’re excited about you if you have:
8+ years of industry experience in performance related work ideally on large scale distributed systems.
Understanding of DBMS algorithms and data structure fundamentals.
Understanding of hardware trends and full stack systems performance: CPU, RAM, storage, network, Linux kernel, JVM, distributed systems performance.
Deep understanding of performance measurement methodologies and performance analysis tools and techniques.
Strong design and coding skills (Java/C++/Golang/Python preferred).
Ability to work in a distributed setting with team members spread across multiple geographies.
Demonstrated ability to work on large cross-functional projects, including strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset, as you will be working with many teams inside and outside of Cloudera.
Hands-on experience with containerization and Kubernetes.
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
You may also have:
Experience with the Hadoop ecosystem (i.e. Hive, Impala, Kudu)
Hands-on experience with public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure and/or GCP)
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
Employee Resource Groups
EEO/VEVRAA
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