Our Company

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
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of a team developing key features for the Teradata database. This organization works with highly motivated engineers who have a strong background in software development. The ideal candidate should be adept at multitasking across various development activities, including research, coding, unit testing, code reviews, analysis, debugging, bug fixing, and system configuration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Development of new features in the complex area of the Teradata Database.
• Understand the existing features and code that need strong ‘C/C++’ skills and data structures.
• Candidate shall also be involved in fixing bugs in the Teradata Database code initially to gain an understanding of the different areas.
• Communicate effectively across teams to ensure alignment and clarity throughout the development process.

Who You’ll Work With

Our team consists of approximately ten plus engineers with exceptional coding and debugging skills in Teradata. You will be required to collaborate closely within and between groups.

• This team will have a dedicated focus on enhancing our market-leading database by developing core database features with stronger cloud-native capabilities.
• We collaborate with several cross-functional agile teams that include Architects, Product Owners, Software Engineers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize, build, test, and ship database features.

 What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

• B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science
• 7+ years of experience in Product-based companies with the sustaining/Development of medium to large projects
• Strong experience in programming with C, C++, and Data structures
• Experience in file system internals, replication, and/or designing distributed file systems across cloud regions
• Familiarity with the consistency model is a significant plus
• Multithreading and strong OS concepts

What You'll Bring

• Strong experience in programming with C, C++, and Data structures
• Excellent creative, analytical, problem-solving, and strong debugging skills.
• Very strong working knowledge of debuggers like GDB
• Ability to independently come up with algorithmic solutions based on complexity and performance considerations.
• RDBMS Knowledge and SQL.
• Good working knowledge in Linux
• Using AI assistant tools such as Copilot and analyzing the current code. 
• Experience with or knowledge of the design and construction of database engine software, which should include SQL.
• Understanding and working with complex parallel software or system programming is an added advantage.
• Works well in a team environment.
• Experienced individuals should have good software development skills, including design specification, coding, and testing. 

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