Staff Software Engineer, Anywhere Cloud (Rust & Kubernetes)

Cloudera

Kalisz

Hybrid

PLN 320,000 - 600,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Job summary

Cloudera is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and build high-performance infrastructure for Anywhere Cloud (AWC). You will own critical Rust services, including reverse proxies, credential brokers, and log collectors, deployed on Kubernetes in hybrid environments.

This role demands security-conscious coding, rigorous testing, and systems thinking. You’ll set technical direction, mentor peers, and collaborate across teams to deliver a scalable, low-latency platform that supports data

Qualifications

Eight+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Production Rust services experience with async Rust.
Strong networking, memory management, and concurrency knowledge.
Experience with security-critical systems and authentication protocols.

Responsibilities

High-Performance Service Development: Rust-based infrastructure services in data path.
Security-Critical Code: implement authentication and access control with thorough tests.
Systems Architecture: design new infrastructure components and define boundaries.
Observability: build telemetry and health endpoints with structured tracing.
Cross-Team Guidance: provide systems-level support and code reviews.
Technical Direction: drive design docs and testing strategies for new components.

Skills

Rust

Kubernetes

Security

Networking

Performance

Testing

Education

BSc/MSc in related field

Tools

Tokio

Hyper

OpenTelemetry

gRPC

Job description

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.

Ready to take cloud innovation to the next level? Join Cloudera’s Anywhere Cloud team and help deliver a true “build your own pipeline, bring your own engine” experience. enabling data and AI workloads to run anywhere, without friction or vendor lock-in.

We take the best of the public cloud- cost efficiency, scalability, elasticity, and agility and extend it to wherever data lives: public clouds, private data centers, and even the edge. Powered by Kubernetes, our hybrid architecture separates compute and storage, giving customers maximum flexibility and optimized infrastructure usage.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to design and build high-performance infrastructure for Anywhere Cloud (AWC). AWC is Cloudera's Kubernetes-native platform for deploying data services onto any cluster, including air-gapped environments. The systems layer handles credential brokering, protocol-level proxying, request signing, and distributed log collection. These are Rust services deployed on Kubernetes where correctness and latency matter equally.

This is not a feature-engineering role. You will own infrastructure where a subtle bug means a security bypass and a naive implementation means unbounded memory growth. You will set the technical direction for performance-critical services, mentor engineers on systems thinking, and provide the low-level capabilities that the rest of the platform depends on.

As a Staff Software Engineer you will:

High-Performance Service Development: Build and own Rust-based infrastructure services (reverse proxies, credential brokers, log collectors) that sit in the data path. Ship end-to-end from design doc to production.
Correctness in Security-Critical Code: Implement and verify authentication protocols and access control enforcement. Write thorough tests (including property-based and fuzz testing) for code where bugs have security implications.
Systems Architecture: Design new infrastructure components. Define module boundaries, memory budgets, streaming patterns, and graceful shutdown semantics. Document tradeoffs clearly.
Observability: Build distributed telemetry and log collection systems. Instrument services with structured tracing, metrics, and health endpoints.
Cross-Team Guidance: Be the go-to engineer when other teams need systems-level help. Performance-sensitive design reviews, streaming patterns, caching strategies.
Technical Direction: Drive design documents for new components. Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions. Define testing strategies that give confidence in critical code paths.

We’re excited about you if you have: (Minimum Qualifications)

Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering, with at least 3 years building performance-critical or security-critical systems (proxies, storage engines, network services, or similar).
Rust: You have shipped production Rust services (not just CLIs or libraries). Comfortable with async Rust, multi-crate workspaces, and the tokio/hyper ecosystem.
Systems Fundamentals: Strong understanding of networking (TCP/HTTP), memory management, streaming/backpressure, and concurrency. You can reason about resource constraints and design accordingly.
Security Awareness: Experience working on systems where correctness has security implications. Comfortable reasoning about authentication protocols, input validation, and adversarial edge cases.
Kubernetes: Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes. Familiarity with the operator pattern, Helm, and cloud-native infrastructure.
Testing: You go beyond happy-path unit tests. Experience with property-based testing, integration test harnesses, or fuzz testing.
Bsc/Msc in related field or equivalent exerience

You may also have: (Preferred Qualifications)

Experience with S3-compatible storage protocols or request signing (SigV4 or similar).
Experience building or operating observability/telemetry pipelines (OpenTelemetry, gRPC, log aggregation).
Prior work on reverse proxies, load balancers, service meshes, or API gateways.
Experience with performance profiling and optimization (flamegraphs, benchmarking, P99 latency work).
Experience building Kubernetes operators or controllers.

This role is not eligible for immigration support or relocation.

Why this role matters:

This is more than cloud management, it’s about building the foundation for a consistent, secure, and compliant cloud experience that gives organizations 100% access to 100% of their data, anywhere.

With the recent acquisition of Taikun, we are simplifying Kubernetes and cloud management even further, creating a platform that is unified, scalable, and future-ready.

If you are passionate about Kubernetes, not just using it but building it at the core managing workloads across hybrid clouds and datacenters and obsessed with performance, devops, etc. this is where you belong.

What you can expect from us: