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Cloudera · 1 day ago

Performance Engineer - Non Functional QE

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Entry Level

$124K/yr - $155K/yr

3+ years exp

Cloudera is a leading data partner for top companies, focusing on empowering data practitioners through innovative data services. The Performance Engineer role involves driving performance reliability for Kubernetes-hosted data services by designing and automating performance tests, analyzing results, and collaborating with internal teams and the open source community to optimize performance across the data engineering stack.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareBig DataSoftwareAnalyticsData GovernanceData ManagementMachine Learning

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

Work with internal development teams and the open source community to proactively drive performance improvements/optimizations across our data warehouse and Data Engineering stack

Work with product managers, developers and the field team to understand performance and scale requirements, and develop benchmarks based on these requirements

Develop automation to execute benchmarks, collect and aggregate metrics and profiles, and report results, trends, and regressions

Analyze performance and scalability characteristics to identify bottlenecks in large-scale distributed systems

Perform root cause analysis of performance issues identified by internal testing and from customers and suggest corrective actions

Evaluate performance of systems and provide related guidance to the team

Qualification

Performance testingDistributed systemsTest automationJava/C++/Golang/PythonDBMS algorithmsPerformance analysis toolsKubernetesCloud infrastructureRoot cause analysisPerformance theorySecurity & ComplianceHadoop ecosystemBenchmark designCommunicationCollaborative mindset

Required

3 + years of industry experience in performance-related work, ideally on large-scale distributed systems

Understanding of DBMS algorithms and data structure fundamentals

Understanding of hardware trends and full-stack systems performance: CPU, RAM, storage, network, Linux kernel, JVM, and distributed systems performance

Understanding of performance analysis tools and techniques

Strong design, coding skills, and test automation skills (Java/C++/Golang/Python preferred)

Knowledge of relevant frameworks, cloud provider knowledge, K8s, etc

Ability to work in a distributed setting with team members spread in multiple geographies

Demonstrated ability to work on large cross-functional projects, including strong written communication skills and a collaborative mindset, as you will be working with many teams inside and outside of Cloudera

Experience with benchmark and performance test design. You should understand basic concepts of performance testing including different types of performance tests (microbenchmarks, end-to-end benchmarks, concurrency and scale testing), how to reduce (or deal with) noise in test results, etc

Experience designing performance tests that provide useful insights into specific aspects of performance

Solid understanding of basic performance theory - in particular a very good understanding of latency, throughput, and concurrency and how they relate to each other

Strong understanding of the types of workloads they'll be testing Ideally they should have specific experience creating performance tests for the specific product area they'll be working on (SQL, ML, etc)

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Preferred

Experience with the Hadoop ecosystem (i.e. Hive, Impala, Spark), in specific Prior work on large‑scale data lakehouse or data‑warehouse performance

Hands-on experience with containerization, Kubernetes, public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure and/or GCP) and mesh-networks

Certifications: CKA/CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect, GCP Cloud Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or equivalent

Security & Compliance: Experience writing performance tests that also verify data‑privacy and audit compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA)

Benefits

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

Paid Volunteer Time

Employee Resource Groups

Company

Cloudera

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Cloudera is a software development company that offers data management and cloud-native data analytic solutions.

Founded in 2008

Santa Clara, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.cloudera.com

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$1.04B

Key Investors

Intel CapitalT. Rowe PriceAccel

2021-06-01Acquired

2018-04-07Post Ipo Secondary

2017-04-28IPO

Leadership Team

Charles Sansbury

Chief Executive Officer

Mary Rorabaugh

Vice President, Finance