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Remote from Spain·Full-time·Added 1 month ago (last checked 15 Nov)
Our summary
- Work mode
- Remote from Spain
- Contract
- Permanent, full-time hours
- English
- Required
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Education
- University degree
Visa options
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Skills
Requirements
What we're looking for
We are excited if you have (Required Experience)
- Bsc/Msc in related field or equivalent experience
- Distributed Observability: Practical understanding of out-of-band telemetry exhaust, OpenTelemetry standards, and W3C distributed tracing context propagation (Datadog, Otel/OpenTelemetry).
- Core Streaming & Orchestration: 6+ years of deep, hands-on experience architecting and operating Apache Kafka (preferably AWS MSK) and Apache NiFi in containerized Kubernetes environments (EKS).
- Data Serialization & Contracts: Expertise in Apache Avro, AsyncAPI, and schema registry management for Master Data Management (MDM) enforcement.
Nice to have
You may also have
- Exposure to Policy-as-Code tools (Open Policy Agent / Rego).
- Hybrid Mesh & Lakehouse Integration: Demonstrated background connecting cloud event meshes to enterprise data lakehouses or big-data monoliths (Cloudera CDP, Hadoop, Hive).
- Infrastructure-as-Code & GitOps: Advanced proficiency with Terraform and GitOps deployment tools (ArgoCD or Flux) operating under a strict pull-based model.
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
Generous PTO Policy
Support work life balance with Unplugged Days
Flexible WFH Policy
Mental & Physical Wellness programs
Phone and Internet Reimbursement program
Access to Continued Career Development
Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages
Employee Resource Groups
The role
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.
What you'll do
- Event-Streaming Architecture (IaC): Architect, provision, and maintain multi-AZ Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (AWS MSK) clusters and Apache NiFi runtimes on Amazon EKS (Graviton ARM64) using Terraform and declarative GitOps patterns.
- Contract-First Schema Governance: Integrate vendor-neutral Schema Registries (AWS Glue / Apicurio) to enforce strict Apache Avro and AsyncAPI data contracts defined in our central Governance Hub before payloads hit production event topics.
- Egress & FinOps Optimization: Implement high-performance partition strategies, dynamic storage auto-scaling (gp3/io2), and mandatory local payload compression (Snappy/Zstd) to minimize cross-cloud data movement fees and optimize compute consumption.
- Resiliency & Out-of-Band Telemetry: Build fault-tolerant Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) automated replay loops and ensure all streaming payloads carry lightweight, out-of-band tracing context across service hops.
Business Area
Business Area: IT
Seniority Level
Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level
About Cloudera
Cloudera is a global software company specializing in enterprise data management and analytics, offering a hybrid data platform that helps organizations manage and analyze data across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. The company is known for its contributions to open-source big data technologies, including Apache Hadoop, and serves a wide range of industries with solutions for data engineering, machine learning, and business intelligence. Cloudera operates globally with a significant engineering presence and a focus on data-driven innovation.
- Industry
- Software
- Founded
- 2008
- Employees
- 1,000–5,000
- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, California, USA
- In Spain
- Barcelona
Good to know if you are moving
- Cloudera has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including Spain, where it has an engineering hub in Barcelona.
- The company offers a hybrid work model, allowing flexibility for employees in engineering roles.
- Cloudera is known for its contributions to open-source projects, providing opportunities to work on cutting-edge data technologies.
- The company has a strong focus on data privacy and security, which may be relevant for professionals in regulated industries.
- Cloudera's careers page warns about recruitment fraud, indicating a need for vigilance during the application process.
In their own words
About the company & team
We are building an enterprise-grade, Everything-as-Code (EaC) Data Mesh that transforms corporate IT from a manual ticket-driven delivery model into an automated, machine-executable software factory. As the Lead Data Mesh Engineer, you will own the architectural execution and hands-on delivery of our high-throughput, asynchronous event-streaming infrastructure and hybrid data pipelines.
Operating in an environment where every asset, route, and policy must exist as declarative code inside Git, you will architect the "Data-in-Motion" backbone across multi-cloud environments (AWS MSK, Apache NiFi on EKS) and insulate our core on-premises data lakehouse.
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