Lead, coach, and scale a team of 6–10 elite engineers to forge a high-performance culture with high accountability, psychological safety, and "extreme ownership" of our Tier-0 telemetry pipeline infrastructure
Job Summary
Lead, coach, and scale a team of 6–10 elite engineers to forge a high-performance culture with high accountability, psychological safety, and "extreme ownership" of our Tier-0 telemetry pipeline infrastructure.
Own the technical excellence of our metrics storage and ingestion interfaces, ensuring 99.99% reliability for services that Cloudera’s Support, Product, and Customers rely on every second.
Balance high-velocity innovation (85%) with disciplined maintenance of mission-critical legacy cloud infrastructure (15%), ensuring a sustainable on-call and release rhythm.
Matching Summary
Lead, coach, and scale a team of 6–10 elite engineers to forge a high-performance culture with high accountability, psychological safety, and "extreme ownership" of our Tier-0 telemetry pipeline infrastructure.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Telemetry infrastructure leadership
OpenTelemetry ecosystem expertise
High-throughput distributed systems
Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) management
High-volume streaming data pipelines
Metrics storage and ingestion interfaces
Nice-to-have
Platform as a Product mindset
CNCF/OpenTelemetry community contributions
Big data understanding
Key Requirements
10+ years in Software Engineering
2+ years formal people management
Leadership through complex architectural shifts
Experience managing high-throughput distributed systems
Hands-on data pipeline experience
Ability to manage "up and out" influencing stakeholders