Director of Engineering platform

Cloudera delivers the world’s fastest, easiest, and most secure platform for data management and analytics, built on Apache Hadoop and latest open source technologies.

Cloudera is looking for talented engineering leaders who have a passion for building and shipping great software. You will be responsible for hiring and leading ultra talented teams of engineers and for driving innovation in our core platform compute frameworks -- MR, YARN, Spark, Ingest -- within an exciting and fast-paced environment. If you have managed and developed A+ teams, have an insatiable desire to create innovative products, have a no-nonsense attitude and a deep expertise in building large scale distributed systems, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

* Hiring, building and mentoring all-star engineer teams. * Enabling some of the smartest engineers in the industry to build revolutionary products. * Collaborating with senior leaders in the organization to strategize around product and technical direction. * Developing company-wide technical best practices and standards as part of our core engineering leadership team.

* You have a strong background in building large-scale distributed systems. * You have built, grown and led top tier development teams (at least 20+ engineers). * You have strong convictions around how great software is built, a healthy disregard for big-company process and bureaucracy, and a deep commitment to customer satisfaction. * You are quick to absorb and foster a strong engineering culture, you have a curiosity and desire to learn. * You are self-motivated, eager to make an impact to product and business strategy.