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Cloudera

Staff Software Engineer – Data Services, Flink

Cloudera

. Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for complex, cross-functional initiatives across streaming products .

Posted 10/7/2026full-timeBudapest • HungaryLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
ApacheAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesOpen SourcePythonScala

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for complex, cross-functional initiatives across streaming products
  • Develop deep expertise in Apache Flink, Cloudera Streaming, and the broader streaming ecosystem
  • Design, implement, test, and release scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable features for a cloud-native streaming platform with hybrid-cloud deployment capabilities
  • Lead technical design discussions and make architectural decisions across distributed systems, APIs, services, and platform capabilities
  • Drive complex engineering projects from technical concept through implementation, testing, release, and production adoption
  • Collaborate with Product Management, UX, Support, Documentation, SRE, and engineering teams
  • Mentor and coach engineers and raise engineering standards
  • Collaborate across geographically distributed teams in Hungary, the United States, and other global locations
  • Partner with field engineering and customers to understand use cases, troubleshoot issues, and facilitate product adoption
  • Contribute to engineering best practices around scalability, reliability, security, observability, performance, and automated testing
  • Represent Cloudera in open source communities and contribute upstream where appropriate

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, and/or 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience
  • Extensive experience building scalable, robust distributed systems and cloud-native software
  • Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, design patterns, and engineering best practices
  • Strong Java skills and extensive experience across the Java ecosystem
  • Significant experience with Apache Flink or comparable distributed stream-processing technologies
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Docker and modern cloud-native architectures
  • Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership without relying on formal management authority
  • Experience driving complex technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams
  • Strong track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction
  • Self-driven and highly motivated, with a strong sense of ownership, engineering craftsmanship, and accountability
  • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Experience with Scala, Python, and/or JavaScript
  • Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and modern software delivery practices
  • Experience with messaging and streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka
  • Experience contributing to Apache or other open source projects, including upstream development and community collaboration
  • Experience with streaming analytics, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, or real-time data processing
  • Experience working with highly available, secure, and performance-sensitive distributed systems

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Generous PTO Policy
  • Unplugged Days supporting work-life balance
  • Flexible WFH Policy
  • Mental & Physical Wellness programs
  • Phone and Internet Reimbursement program
  • Access to Continued Career Development
  • Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages
  • Paid Volunteer Time
  • Employee Resource Groups