Distinguished Engineer, Database Engineering

Teradata Operations • San Diego, CA

29d

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. What You'll Do We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the next generation technical vision and architecture for our core database engine, for massive scalability, elasticity, and resilience at Teradata. This role will serve with technical authority, driving innovation, influencing technology decisions across the organization, and ensuring our platform can dynamically scale to meet evolving product requirements. The ideal candidate is an expert in databases and query engines running in an elastic cloud environment, has a deep understanding of the current market landscape, including the strengths and limitations of other cloud database providers. The candidate should also have a good knowledge of cloud capabilities and their ongoing evolution, to be able to make use of them. The ability to make use of AI to achieve better performance is a plus.

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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.

Benefits

• We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success.
• We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work.
• We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally.
• We are committed to actively working to foster an inclusive environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees