Senior Staff Engineer

About the position

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That's why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers-and our customers' customers-to make better, more confident decisions. The world's top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise. This position is for a Sr. Staff Engineer role in the SQL-Engine Services team within the Vantage Core - Platform Software organization. The position involves leading the design of the SQLE Services architecture, implementing solutions to our most challenging problems, collaborating with other architects and engineers concerning integration and overall architectural strategy, helping to define best practices, and mentoring engineers on the team.

Responsibilities

• SQLE image creation and validation for our supported public cloud platforms.
• Services for enabling cloud provisioning and runtime operations (e.g. scaling, node failure recovery, configuration).
• Design the services and libraries that enable provisioning and runtime operations of the Teradata SQL-Engine on our supported public cloud platforms.
• Coordinate with architects and engineers within Teradata to ensure integration requirements are met.
• Ensure quality and efficiency within their team by helping to guide engineering best practices and mentoring engineers on the team.
• Implement proof-of-concepts for new engineering efforts.
• Assist with debugging challenging problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline with 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Excellent troubleshooting, listening, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in fast paced agile scrum development environment.
• Proven experience with designing services architectures on public and/or private cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMWare ESXi, etc.
• Demonstrated expertise in Python.
• Proven experience in RESTful services development and design.
• Knowledge of security best practices for RESTful services.
• Knowledge of Linux system administration.
• Familiarity with C, bash, SQL.
• Experience with DevOps automation tools and libraries.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Teradata Vantage a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

• Flexible work model.
• Focus on well-being.
• Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.