staff Software Engineer tech_leadership · Posted May 18, 2026

About this role

Cloudera is hiring a staff-level Software Engineer based in Austin, TX. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, REST APIs, AWS.

Role: Software Engineer
Function: software engineering
Level: staff
Track: Tech leadership
Employment: Full-time
Location: Austin, TX
Posted: May 18, 2026

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Job description

from Cloudera careers

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.

Staff Software Engineer

Cloudera is looking for a software engineer to join the Ranger Engineering team within SDX (Shared Data Experience) Services organization to define, drive, develop and maintain Ranger products enabling data security for Cloudera Data Platform.

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

About SDX:

The data usage in enterprises today is growing both in size and complexity. There is a need for a consistent experience of data across the different usage patterns of data— be it data warehousing, machine learning, etc. Cloudera's enterprise data platform (CDP) is uniquely positioned to provide this shared data experience (SDX).

https://www.cloudera.com/products/sdx.html

About Ranger:

Apache Ranger™ is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform. It is the most popular open source product in the Hadoop ecosystem providing data access authorization for a variety of services. Apache Ranger provides a powerful extensible framework to enable data security.

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