Sr. Software Engineer – Hive

Remote from: USA
Annual salary: Undisclosed
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Department: Software Engineering
Employment type: Full Time,
Job posted: 19 Aug 2025
Apply before: 19 Sep 2025
Experience level: Senior
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About company

About Cloudera

We empower you to transform any data anywhere into valuable insight you can trust.

Computer Software
2008

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.

Cloudera is looking for an exceptional and passionate software engineer to join the Data Warehouse engineering team. The technology stack includes popular open source query engines – Apache Hive, Impala, Trino, and table formats like Apache Iceberg. Thus, there is ample scope for collaboration and contribution to open source. This is an exciting opportunity to work on products that handle complex SQL query workloads on public or private clouds as part of the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

Work on large-scale, distributed systems to help drive Hive innovation and build additional components around it to enhance the Hive ecosystem.
Have an exciting opportunity to work on products that handle complex SQL query workloads on public or private clouds as part of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).
Design and develop features for parallel and distributed query engines to help drive innovation in CDP.
Focus on query optimization, performance and scalability of SQL queries.
Write design documentation for key features and capabilities.
Improve code quality through writing tests, automation, and code reviews.
Understand the customer’s workload and provide effective technical solutions.

We are excited about you if you have:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and 6 years of experience.
Clean coding habits, attention to detail, and a focus on quality.
Hands-on programmer with strong data structures and algorithms skills. Java experience is desired.
Good understanding of database internals, query processing and SQL query optimization.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Ability to work effectively on cross-functional projects.

You may also have:

Experience with contributing to any of the open-source Apache projects like Hive, Impala, Calcite or an RDBMS
Experience with the Hadoop ecosystem and file formats like Parquet, ORC
Experience with public cloud infrastructures such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform
Recognized contributions to open source projects

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship

What you can expect from us: