Staff Software Engineer – Customer Developer Tools (CDT)

Our Company

Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform for enterprise analytics. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale. Only Teradata gives you the flexibility to handle the massive and mixed data workloads of the future—today.

The Teradata Vantage architecture is cloud-native, delivered as-a-service, and built on an open ecosystem. These design features make Vantage the ideal platform to optimize price-performance in a multi-cloud environment.

What You’ll Do

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a technical leadership role within the Customer Developer Tools (CDT) team. You’ll design and build the next generation of high-performance database and AI SQL capabilities that power analytics at massive scale. You’ll work across low-level systems programming in C/C++, advanced GoSQL engine enhancements, and AI-assisted SQL frameworks—while collaborating closely with customer developer teams to ensure seamless integration with CDT tools and Teradata’s Vantage platform.

You will:

• Architect and implement scalable, performant components that improve interoperability between Vantage and CDT tools.
• Lead design and technical direction for C/C++, GoSQL, and Python-based systems.
• Work closely with database, cloud, and CDT engineering teams to deliver cross-platform features.
• Collaborate with customer developer teams to align core functionality with real-world workflows.
• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and drive long-term architectural decisions.
• Ensure high standards of performance, reliability, and maintainability across CDT and developer-facing tools.

Impact and Success

Your work will enhance the developer experience for Teradata customers, ensuring high-performance interoperability between Vantage and the CDT ecosystem. You’ll shape how developers and enterprises interact with Teradata data systems and accelerate innovation in AI-driven SQL and database capabilities.

Success in this role means delivering measurable performance gains, driving architectural clarity, and mentoring the next generation of Teradata engineers.

Who You’ll Work With

You’ll join the Customer Developer Ecosystem teams. You’ll collaborate with database architects, CDT architects, engineers, and cross-functional platform teams. This position reports to the Director of CDT Engineering and interfaces across multiple global product teams.

What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in systems-level software development or database engineering.
• Strong programming expertise in C/C++, Go and Python.
• Hands-on experience with SQL engine internals, database systems, or distributed query execution.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers.
• Experience in developing AI agents or working with artificial intelligence technologies is highly desirable. 

What You’ll Bring

• Expertise in GoSQL, AI SQL, or related database query frameworks.
• Experience with multi-threaded, high-performance, and multi-cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of database architecture, query optimization, and data systems performance.
• Experience integrating with customer developer tools or SDKs.
• Familiarity with Teradata’s Vantage ecosystem or comparable enterprise data systems.
• Excellent debugging, profiling, and performance analysis skills.
• Leadership experience influencing cross-team architectural design and strategy.
• A passion for building scalable, reliable systems that enable global enterprise analytics.

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