Teradata ยท 1 day ago
Principal Architect, Core Platform
San Diego, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$217K/yr - $326K/yr
10+ years expTeradata is a leading cloud analytics and data platform company that empowers organizations with better information. The Principal Architect will lead the technical vision and architecture for the cloud platform, focusing on scalability, elasticity, and resilience while mentoring teams and influencing engineering strategies.
AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceCloud Data ServicesCloud StorageData GovernanceData ManagementMarketingPrivate CloudSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Define and evolve the architectural blueprint for a highly elastic, self-optimizing cloud platform
Develop frameworks and systems that support real-time autoscaling, predictive scaling, capacity forecasting, and cost-aware elasticity
Maintain a deep understanding of cloud provider offerings (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. ) and relevant industry tooling, including their performance characteristics, constraints, and roadmap directions
Evaluate emerging technologies, vendor solutions, and open-source projects, identifying opportunities and gaps relative to our needs
Influence long-term engineering strategy, collaborating with product, operations, and security teams to align architectural decisions with business goals
Mentor senior technical leaders and engineering teams; drive engineering excellence and establish best practices for scalable cloud architecture
Establish patterns for distributed systems that optimize workload placement, resource utilization, reliability, and failure recovery
Focus on cost efficiency by designing elasticity mechanisms that reduce waste without compromising performance or customer experience
Lead the creation of reference implementations, proofs-of-concept, and performance experiments to validate design decisions
Investigate platform constraints and collaborate with teams to design alternatives or mitigations
Define guardrails, standards, and tooling that ensure elasticity features are observable, testable, and production-ready
Qualification
Required
10+ years in large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering
Proven track record architecting high-scale, elastic, multi-region or multi-cloud systems
Deep understanding of cloud provider elasticity primitives, orchestration systems (Kubernetes, serverless, autoscalers), and modern infrastructure technologies
Preferred
Experience with hybrid or edge-cloud architectures
Contributions to open-source cloud infrastructure projects
Prior Distinguished Engineer or Principal Engineer experience in a large-scale cloud-native organization
Company
Teradata
Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2007-09-21IPO
Leadership Team
Michael Koehler
President & CEO
Louis Landry
Chief Technology Officer
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