Druid Engineer

Location: Dallas, TX
Rate: $55/hr C2C
Employment Type: Contract

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Druid Engineer to design, deploy, administer, optimize, and support large-scale Apache Druid environments supporting PB-scale datasets. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Druid cluster administration, performance tuning, ingestion, monitoring, automation, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, administer, and optimize large-scale Apache Druid clusters supporting PB-scale analytical workloads.
• Manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Apache Druid services, clusters, and distributed components.
• Perform Druid cluster upgrades, patching, capacity planning, scaling, and platform modernization.
• Monitor cluster health, ingestion performance, query latency, segment distribution, resource utilization, and overall platform performance.
• Troubleshoot ingestion failures, stuck tasks, compaction issues, retention policies, segment management, and indexing problems.
• Optimize Druid queries, partitioning strategies, indexing specifications, segment allocation, and compaction configurations.
• Configure and maintain Druid metadata stores using MySQL, including metadata management and database connectivity.
• Develop operational automation using Ansible, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and configuration management practices.
• Build and maintain Grafana dashboards, Prometheus monitoring, alerts, metrics, and centralized logging solutions.
• Implement and support High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), backup/recovery, security, and compliance requirements.
• Participate in production support, incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, architects, data engineering, and business teams to translate analytical requirements into scalable Druid solutions.
• Support Druid performance optimization, scalability, reliability, availability, and operational excellence across enterprise environments.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Druid / Druid Engineering.
• Experience administering large-scale distributed Druid clusters and PB-scale datasets.
• Strong knowledge of Druid ingestion, indexing, segments, partitioning, compaction, retention, and query optimization.
• Experience with Druid MiddleManager/Indexer, Historical, Broker, Coordinator, Overlord, Router, and Metadata Store components.
• Strong experience with MySQL for Druid metadata management.
• Experience with Ansible and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Hands-on experience with Grafana, Prometheus, monitoring, alerting, metrics, and logging.
• Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity planning, and production support experience.
• Knowledge of High Availability, Disaster Recovery, backup/recovery, security, and compliance.

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