Cloudera

Senior Backend Engineer - Anywhere Cloud

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2 months ago
San Jose, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$152k - $190k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build Go microservices and REST APIs using Echo for the Anywhere Cloud console and platform layer.
  • Build Kubernetes operators, controllers, jobs, and services using controller-runtime, Helm charts, CRDs, and the Kubernetes API.
  • Develop functionality for cluster lifecycle management, application deployment, authentication, and credential brokering.
  • Integrate with internal services including the CCF/Taikun provisioning API, Knox, cert-manager, and Proxinator, as well as AWS and GCP APIs.
  • Design database schemas, write migrations with golang-migrate, and manage PostgreSQL-backed cluster state and deployment records.
  • Write unit, integration, and system-level tests and validate changes against real Kubernetes clusters.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience shipping production backend systems.
  • Strong day-to-day Go proficiency with experience building and maintaining production Go services.
  • Application-developer-level understanding of Kubernetes, including pods, services, deployments, CRDs, and RBAC, plus experience deploying and debugging services on Kubernetes.
  • Experience building and maintaining REST APIs, including request validation, middleware, error handling, and versioning.
  • Experience writing SQL, designing schemas, and managing migrations against PostgreSQL or a similar relational database.
  • Ability to independently break down loosely defined problems and deliver working solutions.
  • Preferred experience with Kubernetes operators or controllers using controller-runtime or kubebuilder, reconciliation loops, and CRD design.
  • Preferred experience authoring Helm charts for complex multi-service deployments.
  • Preferred familiarity with OIDC, SAML, mTLS, SigV4, token exchange, or credential-brokering patterns.
  • Preferred hands-on experience with AWS or GCP APIs, including IAM, S3, and networking.
  • Preferred familiarity with Bazel, Make, structured logging with slog, metrics, or distributed tracing.

Benefits

  • California annual base salary range of $152,000-$190,000.
  • Generous paid time off and Unplugged Days supporting work-life balance.
  • Flexible work-from-home policy.
  • Mental and physical wellness programs.
  • Phone and internet reimbursement program.
  • Continued career development access.
  • Comprehensive benefits and competitive packages.
  • Paid volunteer time and employee resource groups.
  • The role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship or relocation.

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About Cloudera

1,001-5,000 employees

Cloudera builds the Cloudera Data Platform, an enterprise data stack for hybrid cloud and on‑premises environments that unifies data engineering, warehousing, streaming, and machine learning with governance. It sells subscriptions and managed services to large enterprises across regulated, data‑intensive industries. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Santa Clara, the company was taken private in 2021 in a transaction led by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R).

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