Teradata ยท 1 day ago
Distinguished Engineer, Database Engineering
California, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$240K/yr - $359K/yr
15+ years expTeradata is a leader in cloud analytics and data platforms, empowering businesses with harmonized data and trusted AI. The Distinguished Engineer will lead the technical vision and architecture for the core database engine, ensuring scalability and resilience while driving innovation across the organization.
AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceCloud Data ServicesCloud StorageData GovernanceData ManagementMarketingPrivate CloudSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Define and evolve the architectural blueprint for a highly elastic, highly scalable and elastic cloud database
Develop frameworks and systems that support autoscaling and cost-aware elasticity
Maintain a working 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
Qualification
Required
15+ years in database internals, query optimization, query executions
10+ years in large-scale distributed systems in the cloud
Proven track record architecting high-scale, elastic systems
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Preferred
Experience with AI for database optimization
Contributions to open-source cloud infrastructure projects
Prior Distinguished Engineer or Principal Engineer experience in a database or large-scale cloud-native organization
Experience with Teradata, Snowflake, Databricks, or other similar systems
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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