Data Engineer

Job Description: Cloudera Data Engineers are focused on working internally on Cloudera’s Data Warehouse implementation for purposes of ingesting data for Business Operations and Analytics. A Data Engineer is responsible for the design and implementation of data pipelines, drawing on a range of Big Data technologies to support data ingestion and transformation workflows with varying complexity, requirements, and SLAs.

A Data Engineer at Cloudera will build on and develop fluency in Big Data ingest and transformation as well as being responsible for data quality and integrity for the pipelines.

Data Engineers are expected to deliver data pipelines that meet specifications developed by our Data Architects, while maintaining reusability and flexibility for changes over time – in an agile development environment. Data models from these pipelines will inform the daily actions of business groups across the Company.

A successful candidate will contribute both to the management of Cloudera’s internal data asset and to methodologies and tools for use by Cloudera solutions architects at customer sites.

Key Responsibilities

- Work with the Data Architects to understand the data needs of the lines-of-business.

- Work with the data owners to get access to data and ingest it into the data store in a reliable way.

- Build transformations primarily using SQL to enrich data, following the specifications and standards from the Data Architecture team.

- Create real-time data flows to meet the needs of operational systems.

- Monitor the flow of data to keep data services reliable.

Requirements

- Strong written and oral communication skills required

- Comfortable coding in SQL, scripting languages, Java, Python

- Some experience with ETL, Business Intelligence, and Data Processing

- Proven ability to architect and implement reliable data pipelines

- Hands-on experience with Hadoop Technologies. At least one of Impala, Hive, Kafka, MapReduce, or Spark

- Experience monitoring critical data pipelines for correctness

- Debugging skills to address issues in data pipelines

Nice to have

- Past exposure to advanced numerical methods

- Experience optimizing data storage in HDFS/Parquet/Avro, Kudu, or HBase

- Experience with third party tools like Streamsets and Trifacta

- Experience with Cloudera Labs’ Envelope Spark Framework