
Senior Software Engineer - Backend: Innovation Accelerator
Cloudera is looking for a passionate Backend Software Engineer to play a key role in advancing Cloudera’s database offerings across multiple cloud providers. Since its origin, Cloudera has enabled several enterprise organizations to effectively manage and use their data using the on-premise infrastructure. We are now building software solutions that enable our customers to leverage cloud infrastructure to facilitate their growing data needs, and thereby accelerating Cloudera’s next stage of growth.
At Cloudera, our culture, our ethos, is centered on our values. We're here not only because we're experts at what we do, but also because we hold these values in common.
We are always moving forward. We believe in open. We are empathetic. We believe in We.
The Team
The team is a new and growing Innovation Accelerator that is exploring new ideas to expand the business. As part of the team, you will work on innovative projects that are fast paced and iterate quickly. You will learn about the modern data stack ecosystem. You will also be involved in every stage of the project - from ideation to delivering products and features to customers. Cloudera customers include the largest banks, telecom providers, and companies in pharma, financial services, retail, manufacturing, oil and gas and government.
You will:
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Build robust and scalable data infrastructure software
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Design and create services and system architecture for your projects
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Contribute to and provide feedback to other team members
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Improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation, and code reviews
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Brainstorm and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms and products
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Work with product, design, customer-success teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and translate those into effective technical solutions
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Dive into challenging technical problems and successfully deliver results
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And since we believe in high quality software engineering environments, you likely have:
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Worked with a team of designers/engineers who reviewed each other's code/designs and held each other to an extremely high bar for quality of code/designs
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Be comfortable providing estimates and sticking to estimates!
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Written unit tests and testable code
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Depended on continuous integration, and participated in build and release processes
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Own the quality of the code you wrote even (especially!) when it is running in production
You have:
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Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field/experience
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5+ years of experience building software
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Experience building distributed systems/databases
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Experience with one or more of the following:
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Nodejs, Python, java
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Cloud services like Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Platform, Microsoft Azure
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Kubernetes
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- Proficiency in RESTful APIs, Web Services, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of OOP, OOD, Design Patterns, and DS & Algo.
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and optimization skills.
- Prior experience in leading teams is highly desirable.
Must have :
- Strong Experience in Python development
- Familiarity with Data Structures and Algorithms
- Experience in developing Enterprise scale applications
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- Exposure / awareness of AI, ML
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Required Skills:
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- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
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- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
- Microservices
- Any Caching Mechanism
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Good to Have Skills:
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QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE
A graduate degree or senior Diploma in engineering or technology with 4-8 years of experience in some or all of the following.
- PHP, Integration with MemCache, Membase, MySQL, Oracle, CDB/BDB, Error Handling and debuggers
- Data Structures,
- HTML / XHTML, CSS, java-script, Smarty
- Web Services, SOAP, XML, REST
- Code optimization, Scaling, Session management, Version control Systems
- MIME Parsing, Large data processing in PHP (encoding, parsing, escaping for special characters etc.)
Job description
- Design and develop large-scale business application using Java, Spring boot, Microservices Architecture
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- Creating webservices (SOAP/RESTful) and consuming webservices
- Strong fundamentals OOPS concepts, Exception Handling, Coding Standards
- Experience in MySQL/MSSQL/Oracle
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- Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux
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Strong application design and implementation skills, solid understanding of the entire development cycle.
Strong background in Java/J2EE based application
Strong background in Spring/Spring boot based application
Strong background in Microservices based application
Experience working with Apache and/or Tomcat
Experience in transforming requirements to software design
Strong Experience with developing Java SAAS web applications.
Working experience in Industry Standard protocols related API Security including OAuth
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Strong background working with Linux/UNIX environments.
Strong Shell scripting experience.
Working knowledge with Oracle, DB2 or MongoDB databases.
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