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Staff Software Engineer - Apache Iceberg

5 Locations🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $184,000–$184,000🗓 2026-06-03 → 2026-07-31

Core

Architect, design, and scale the next generation of enterprise-grade Apache Iceberg distribution for managing petabyte-scale datasets across multi-cloud environments.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Distributed Systems & Data Platform)

Builds

Enterprise-grade Apache Iceberg distribution and core components for Cloudera's Data Platform Pillar

Domain

Big Data, Distributed Systems, Data Lakes, Multi-cloud

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Systems design, Data structures and algorithms, Java, Scala, C++, Python, Debugging and root cause analysis, Open-source contribution

Preferred skills

Apache Iceberg development, Distributed computing, High availability systems, SQL optimization

Technologies

Apache Iceberg, Java, Scala, C++, Python

Responsibilities

Drive future data architecture as a core contributor to Apache Iceberg, Implement new features in Iceberg to improve engine performance, Collaborate with Product Managers and Customers to define improvements for Modern Data Lakes, Develop new features in Java on modern platforms, Work on massive-scale distributed systems spanning hundreds to thousands of nodes, Debug system-level deployment issues and perform system test analysis

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic ownership

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