Cloudera
Senior Backend Engineer - Anywhere Cloud
US-California-San Jose, USA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$152k-$190kDetected 135 days ago
GoDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentSQLPostgreSQLAWSGCPKubernetesHelmDevOpsAPI DevelopmentREST
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About the role
- 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 advances digital transformation for the world's largest enterprises.
Responsibilities
- You will work in Go, building services that run on Kubernetes, and collaborate closely with engineers working on operators, auth, platform infrastructure, and the frontend console.
- This is a hands-on IC role where you ship production code, design service APIs, and solve real distributed systems problems in a team that moves fast and keeps things simple.
- Backend Service Development: Design and build Go microservices (REST APIs via Echo, Kubernetes controllers via controller-runtime) that power the AWC console and platform layer.
- Kubernetes-Native Engineering: Build operators, controllers, and jobs that run on Kubernetes. Work with Helm charts, CRDs, and the Kubernetes API directly. Understand pod lifecycle, RBAC, and service mesh (Istio) patterns.
- API Design: Experience building and maintaining REST APIs. Comfort with request validation, middleware patterns, error handling, and versioning.
- Kubernetes Operators: Experience building operators or controllers using controller-runtime/kubebuilder. Understanding of reconciliation loops and CRD design.
- Build Systems: Comfort with Bazel, Make, or similar build tooling in a monorepo or multi-repo setup.
- Support work life balance with Unplugged Days
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production backend systems.
- You have built and maintained Go services in production, not just written scripts or CLIs.
- You have deployed services to Kubernetes clusters and debugged issues in that environment.
- Comfort with request validation, middleware patterns, error handling, and versioning.
- You can take a loosely-defined problem, break it down, and ship a working solution without constant direction.
- Autonomy: You can take a loosely-defined problem, break it down, and ship a working solution without constant direction.
Skills
- Ready to take cloud innovation to the next level?
- SQL/Relational Databases: Comfortable writing SQL, designing schemas, and managing migrations against PostgreSQL or similar.
Compensation
- The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is:
Benefits
- Generous PTO Policy
- Flexible WFH Policy
- Phone and Internet Reimbursement program
- Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages
Company info
- Business Area: Engineering Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level Job Description: At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights.
- Powered by Kubernetes, our hybrid architecture separates compute and storage, giving customers maximum flexibility and optimized infrastructure usage.
- With the recent acquisition of Taikun, we are simplifying Kubernetes and cloud management even further, creating a platform that is unified, scalable, and future-ready.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship or relocation.
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