This position can be remote from Ireland and Spain

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.

The Leading Emergent Engineering Taskforce (LEET) is a new, agile operational unit designed to execute on Cloudera’s most critical strategic initiatives. Operating as an "empowered pod," we bridge the gap between abstract requirements and real-world execution, tackling both complex customer integrations and high-impact internal engineering projects. We move with the velocity of a startup while leveraging the massive scale of the Cloudera Data Platform.

As the Senior Applied Engineer, you will serve as the Rosetta Stone between the taskforce's technical execution and our high-level business goals. You ensure our systems are business relevant.

Working closely with both internal and external stakeholders, you diagnose the root cause of friction to translate ambiguous goals into concrete engineering requirements for the pod. You are a hybrid technologist—part solutions architect, part systems engineer—responsible for preventing "pilot purgatory" by validating that we are solving the right problem before the team writes a single line of production code.