Staff Software Engineer in Test - Anywhere Cloud - Performance and Scale

About this role

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.

# Job Title: Staff Software Engineer in Test - Anywhere Cloud - Performance and Scale

## Team Overview

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.

## The Role

As a Staff Software Engineer in Test you will architect automation framework and tools that validates a highly distributed, multi-cluster control plane from performance and resilience point of view. You will own the test strategy for AWC—validating it both as an application installed via Taikun and as a platform that orchestrates other clusters. You will define how we verify Zero-Trust security models, API-first contracts, and cross-cluster resource management.

## Key Responsibilities

• Test Architecture Leadership: Design, architect, and scale comprehensive automated performance frameworks capable of validating the core control plane, cluster provisioning, and multi-cluster engine deployments under massive load.
• Baseline: Create baseline test suites for measuring performance from relea...