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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer, Anywhere Cloud (Rust & Kubernetes) - **Company:** Cloudera's Anywhere Cloud - **Location:** Barcelona, Spain (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon S3, User Authentication, Authentication Protocols, Unit Testing, Cloud Computing, Profiling, Data as a Services, Data Validation, Software Design Documents, Memory Management, Fuzz Testing, Network Service, Cloudera, Service Development Studio, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Systems Architecture, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Strategies of Testing, Load Balancing, Cloud Platform System, Feature Engineering, Caching, Build Management, Integration Tests, Kubernetes, Storage Technologies, Api Gateway, Grpc - **Published:** September 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.recruit.net/job/staff-software-engineer-anywhere-cloud-jobs/5B865EF90CDED288 ## About the Role We're excited about you if you have: (Minimum Qualifications)Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering, with at least 3 years building performance-critical or security-critical systems (proxies, storage engines, network services, or similar).Rust: You have shipped production Rust services (not just CLIs or libraries). Comfortable with async Rust, multi-crate workspaces, and the tokio/hyper ecosystem. Systems Fundamentals: Strong understanding of networking (TCP/HTTP), memory management, streaming/backpressure, and concurrency. You can reason about resource constraints and design accordingly. Security Awareness: Experience working on systems where correctness has security implications. Comfortable reasoning about authentication protocols, input validation, and adversarial edge cases. Kubernetes: Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes. Familiarity with the operator pattern, Helm, and cloud-native infrastructure. Testing: You go beyond happy-path unit tests. Experience with property-based testing, integration test harnesses, or fuzz testing. Bsc/Msc in related field or equivalent exerienceYou may also have: (Preferred Qualifications)Experience with S3-compatible storage protocols or request signing (SigV4 or similar).Experience building or operating observability/telemetry pipelines (OpenTelemetry, gRPC, log aggregation).Prior work on reverse proxies, load balancers, service meshes, or API gateways. Experience with performance profiling and optimization (flamegraphs, benchmarking, P99 latency work).Experience building Kubernetes operators or controllers. ## Description We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to design and build high-performance infrastructure for Anywhere Cloud (AWC). AWC is Cloudera's Kubernetes-native platform for deploying data services onto any cluster, including air-gapped environments. The systems layer handles credential brokering, protocol-level proxying, request signing, and distributed log collection. These are Rust services deployed on Kubernetes where correctness and latency matter equally. This is not a feature-engineering role. You will own infrastructure where a subtle bug means a security bypass and a naive implementation means unbounded memory growth. You will set the technical direction for performance-critical services, mentor engineers on systems thinking, and provide the low-level capabilities that the rest of the platform depends on. As a Staff Software Engineer you will: High-Performance Service Development: Build and own Rust-based infrastructure services (reverse proxies, credential brokers, log collectors) that sit in the data path. Ship end-to-end from design doc to production. Correctness in Security-Critical Code: Implement and verify authentication protocols and access control enforcement. Write thorough tests (including property-based and fuzz testing) for code where bugs have security implications. Systems Architecture: Design new infrastructure components. Define module boundaries, memory budgets, streaming patterns, and graceful shutdown semantics. Document tradeoffs clearly. Observability: Build distributed telemetry and log collection systems. Instrument services with structured tracing, metrics, and health endpoints. Cross-Team Guidance: Be the go-to engineer when other teams need systems-level help. Performance-sensitive design reviews, streaming patterns, caching strategies. Technical Direction: Drive design documents for new components. Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions. 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