Senior Backend Engineer (Anywhere Cloud)

Join Cloudera's Anywhere Cloud team as a Senior Backend Engineer. In this role, you will design and build Go microservices that power the AWC console and platform layer. You will work closely with engineers on various components and solve real distributed systems problems. This is a hands-on role where you will ship production code, design service APIs, and integrate with internal and external platform components.

• Design and build Go microservices (REST APIs via Echo, Kubernetes controllers via controller-runtime) that power the AWC console and platform layer.
• Build operators, controllers, and jobs that run on Kubernetes. Work with Helm charts, CRDs, and the Kubernetes API directly.
• Integrate with internal platform components (CCF/Taikun provisioning API, Knox for secrets, cert-manager for TLS, Proxinator for credential indirection) and external cloud provider APIs (AWS S3/IAM, GCP).
• SQL/Relational Databases: Comfortable writing SQL, designing schemas, and managing migrations against PostgreSQL or similar
• Go Proficiency: Strong day-to-day Go skills. You have built and maintained Go services in production, not just written scripts or CLIs
• Experience: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production backend systems
• Kubernetes Familiarity: You understand how Kubernetes works from an application developer perspective: pods, services, deployments, CRDs, RBAC. You have deployed services to Kubernetes clusters and debugged issues in that environment
• API Design: Experience building and maintaining REST APIs. Comfort with request validation, middleware patterns, error handling, and versioning
• Autonomy: You can take a loosely-defined problem, break it down, and ship a working solution without constant direction. You ask questions when stuck, not when uncertain
• Observability: Experience instrumenting services with structured logging (slog), metrics, or distributed tracing
• Build Systems: Comfort with Bazel, Make, or similar build tooling in a monorepo or multi-repo setup
• Kubernetes Operators: Experience building operators or controllers using controller-runtime/kubebuilder. Understanding of reconciliation loops and CRD design
• Helm: Experience authoring and maintaining Helm charts for complex multi-service deployments
• Auth/Security: Familiarity with OIDC, SAML, mTLS, or credential-brokering patterns (SigV4, token exchange)
• Cloud Provider APIs: Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP APIs (IAM, S3, networking)