Staff Software Engineer - Apache Iceberg

Job Description

We are seeking a visionary Staff Engineer to take ownership of the next generation of our enterprise‑grade Apache Iceberg distribution. The role involves architecting, designing, and scaling the system that powers data processing for large enterprises, managing petabytes of data across thousands of nodes.

Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer you will:

• Drive the future of data architecture by contributing to the open‑source Apache Iceberg project.
• Implement new features in Iceberg and work with other teams to integrate performance improvements into the Cloudera stack.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and customers to shape Iceberg for modern data lakes.
• Develop new features using modern Java platforms.
• Gain in‑depth understanding of components across the Cloudera stack, focusing on Iceberg.
• Work on massive‑scale distributed systems spanning 100s to 1,000s of production node...