Distinguished Engineer, Database Engineering

Teradata 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.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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