Senior Druid Engineer
Listed on 2026-06-27
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, IT Specialist
Overview
Prodapt is the largest specialized player in the Connectedness industry. As an AI-first strategic technology partner, Prodapt provides consulting, business reengineering, and managed services for the largest telecom and tech enterprises building networks and digital experiences of tomorrow. A Service Now-invested company, Prodapt has been recognized by Gartner as a Large, Telecom-Native, Regional IT Service Provider. A Great Place To Work Certified company, Prodapt employs over 6,000 technology and domain experts across the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, and Japan.
Prodapt is part of the 130-year-old business conglomerate The Jhaver Group, which employs over 32,000 people across 80+ locations globally.
We are looking for a skilled Apache Druid Administrator to join our Data Infrastructure team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, deploying, and managing large-scale Apache Druid clusters that power petabyte-scale analytical workloads. You will work closely with platform architects and business teams to ensure high-availability, performance, and reliability of our real-time analytics platform.
Responsibilities- Design, deploy, administer, and optimize large-scale Apache Druid clusters supporting PB-scale datasets.
- Manage and troubleshoot Druid services.
- Perform cluster upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and platform modernization activities.
- Monitor cluster health, ingestion performance, query latency, segment distribution, and resource utilization.
- Troubleshoot ingestion failures, stuck tasks, compaction issues, retention policies, and segment management problems.
- Optimize Druid queries, partitioning strategies, indexing specifications, and compaction configurations.
- Configure and maintain Druid metadata stores using MySQL.
- Develop operational automation using Ansible and Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies.
- Create dashboards, alerts, and monitoring solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, and logging platforms.
- Work with platform teams to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and security compliance.
- Participate in production support, incident response, root cause analysis, and performance tuning initiatives.
- Collaborate with architects and business teams to understand analytical requirements and translate them into scalable solutions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Hands-on 7+ years of experience administering Apache Druid in production environments at scale
- Strong understanding of Druid architecture:
Coordinator, Overlord, Broker, Historical, Middle Manager, Router. - Proficiency in Druid ingestion specifications (native batch, Kafka, Hadoop-based)
- Experience with compaction, retention policies, and segment lifecycle management
- Expertise in query optimisation and partitioning strategies for large datasets
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