Cassandra Lead Engineer: Build Scalable, Reliable Data Stores

HCLTech; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 78,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

HCLTech in Mountain View, CA seeks a Cassandra Lead Engineer to design, architect, and implement highly available distributed data stores (Cassandra, PostgreSQL) across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will set the technical roadmap for persistence services and lead incident response.

You will mentor engineers, drive security and disaster‑recovery best practices, automate cluster provisioning, and collaborate with SRE, engineering and support teams to improve reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing large-scale distributed data systems (e.g., Cassandra, ZooKeeper) in production.
• Deep understanding of distributed system architectures, data modeling, internals, and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in Linux environments and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform).
• Experience with monitoring and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring).
• Experience working in cloud environments (GCP, AWS, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of highly available, scalable, and performant distributed data stores (including Cassandra and PostgreSQL) across cloud and OnPrem environments.
• Define and drive the technical roadmap and strategy for the persistence services layer within Apigee Edge Data Services.
• Lead incident response and management with clear communication.
• Lead comprehensive post-mortem analyses for production incidents to identify root causes, document findings, and drive the implementation of preventative measures across the data platform.
• Lead vulnerability management initiatives, including the execution of regular version and security upgrades for all supported data services.
• Establish and enforce best practices for distributed systems data modeling, capacity planning, performance tuning, security, and disaster recovery.
• Develop and improve automation for cluster provisioning, configuration management, and upgrades.
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point for complex production issues, including root cause analysis.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers across the organization.
• Collaborate with Engineering, SRE, and Support teams to align the data layer with platform requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance reliability and maintainability.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation for production support.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Mentoring

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ZooKeeper

Consul

Job description

HCLTech in Mountain View, CA seeks a Cassandra Lead Engineer to design, architect, and implement highly available distributed data stores (Cassandra, PostgreSQL) across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will set the technical roadmap for persistence services and lead incident response.

You will mentor engineers, drive security and disaster‑recovery best practices, automate cluster provisioning, and collaborate with SRE, engineering and support teams to improve reliability and performance.