Staff Performance Engineer

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. We are looking for Performance Engineers to push the boundaries of big data query performance. You will benchmark, profile, and optimize Impala, Hive, and Spark to set industry‑leading standards in analytic performance.

As a Staff Performance Engineer you will:

• Build and run performance benchmarks at scale (1000+ nodes).
• Profile query engines using flame graphs, perf, and low‑level debugging tools.
• Optimize execution engin...