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.
About Octopai
Octopai is a fast-growing Data Intelligence company (Acquired by Cloudera) that empowers enterprises to understand, trust, and optimize their data. Our platform provides automated data lineage, cataloging, and discovery to accelerate analytics, improve governance, and drive business impact.
Role Overview
We are looking for a highly experienced, hands-on Software Engineering Tech Lead to provide technical leadership for our Application Engineering team.
This is an IC5 technical leadership role, not a pure people-management position. The ideal candidate is a strong software engineer who remains close to the code and can lead complex features from architecture and technical design through implementation and production.
You will work on data-intensive enterprise applications and integrations across data platforms, BI/analytics ecosystems, metadata, and data lineage. You will provide technical direction to engineers while partnering closely with Product, Support, Delivery, and DevOps.
As a Technical Lead you will:
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, design, implementation, code reviews, troubleshooting, and production support.
- Lead complex features and technical initiatives end-to-end, from requirements and technical design through implementation and production delivery.
- Define technical approaches, break down complex problems, identify risks, and guide engineers through implementation.
- Make and drive architectural decisions while ensuring scalability, maintainability, performance, and engineering quality.
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical standards of the team through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance.
- Design and develop integrations with enterprise data platforms, databases, APIs, and BI/analytics systems.
- Partner with the Engineering Manager and Product team on scope, priorities, technical feasibility, and delivery planning.
- Collaborate with Support, Delivery, and DevOps to troubleshoot complex customer and production issues.
- Remain actively involved in development while providing technical leadership across the team.
We're excited about you if you have:
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience in senior or technical leadership roles.
- Strong hands-on backend engineering experience with one or more languages such as C#, Java, Python, or Scala.
- Proven experience designing and implementing complex, production-grade software systems.
- Proven experience leading complex features or technical projects from architecture and design through implementation and delivery.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, databases, SQL, performance, scalability, and production troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of data pipelines and enterprise data architectures.
- Ability to independently investigate complex technical problems and drive solutions across multiple components.
- Strong code-review, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate across Engineering, Product, Support, Delivery, and DevOps.
You may also have:
- Experience building SaaS or enterprise software products.
- Experience with metadata management, data lineage, data catalogs, or analytics platforms.
- Experience integrating with BI and data technologies such as Power BI, Tableau, Databricks, Snowflake, SQL Server, Oracle, or similar platforms.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience troubleshooting complex production and customer environments.
- Previous experience mentoring senior and mid-level engineers.
What you can expect from us:
Generous PTO Policy
Support work life balance with Unplugged Days
Flexible WFH Policy
Mental & Physical Wellness programs
Phone and Internet Reimbursement program
Access to Continued Career Development
Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages
Paid Volunteer Time
Employee Resource Groups
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