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 their customers, to make clearer, 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 Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key contributor to Teradata’s High Availability initiatives. In this role, you will join a high-profile team that collaborates closely to design, develop, test, and maintain Teradata’s In-Database Replication offering, a critical business continuity solution for its customers worldwide. 

Your responsibilities will span the full product development lifecycle, including requirement analysis, architecture and design, development, testing, and ongoing maintenance of new and existing features. You will also engage with the associated technologies and environments necessary to ensure successful, high-quality product delivery. 

As time and priorities permit, you may also provide support for released products, contributing to overall product stability and customer satisfaction. 

Who You'll Work With

This is an individual contributor role where you will work with best-in-class engineering product team members and Architects, reporting to a Senior Engineering Manager. 

What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

• 10 to 12 years of working experience as a Software Developer. 

• Experience with large-scale, enterprise grade software development in C/C++ programming language, including: 

• • Low level TCP/IP protocol 

• • Inter-process communications 

• • Debugging multi-threaded applications 

• Strong data structure, multi-threading and algorithms fundamentals. 

• Multi-cloud and On Premises platforms exposure. 

• Very good understanding of common public cloud technologies - storage, communication, and security. 

• Knowledge of SQL and understanding of relational databases, including, Referential Integrity, Columnar vs. Row Storage, Triggers, and Stored Procedures. 

• Strong background in database internals and analytics through working exposure. 

• Knowledge of diverse concepts and techniques for creating systems with High Availability and Resilience. 

• Experience working on high-availability data replication solutions achieving near‑zero RTO and RPO. 

• Knowledge of modern storage options, including objects stores, sharded data, and data replication techniques. 

• Ability to achieve low-level processor optimization for Intel and ARM processors. 

• Knowledge of low-level memory management, leak detection, use of Valgrind. 

• Performance profiling analysis skills. 

• Knowledge of concurrency techniques: lock-free vs lock-based tradeoffs, atomics/memory model, deadlock/starvation diagnosis. 

• Awareness of security hardening concepts, like secure parsing, integer overflow checks, and threat modeling for native code. 

• Proficiency in AI concepts and tools, including practical experience in integrating AI-driven solutions or leveraging AI frameworks for software development. 

• Experience developing AI agents and MCP servers. 

• Knowledge of Teradata Database (highly preferred and will be an added advantage). 

What You'll Bring

• Analyzing current systems to find flaws that can jeopardize cloud or network security. 

• Maintaining applications and infrastructure for cloud-based platforms. 

• Exposure to and knowledge of cloud technologies, including cloud scripting languages and libraries. 

• Understanding of message brokers and messaging. 

• Experience with full life cycle development skills - Designing, Developing, Coding, Testing and debugging system software. 

• Use of Agile methodologies and tools. 

• Strong written and oral communication skills. 

• Good analytical and logical skills. Strong troubleshooting & debugging skills on Linux. 

• Self-motivation and self-organizing skills, with a high capacity for rapid learning and having meticulous attention to detail. 

• Technical support skills when communicating with customers and customer-facing personnel. 

• Test development skills for both unit and functional tests. 

• Knowledge of QA automation frameworks and tools, including understanding how automated test scripts are written and integrated into CI/CD pipelines. 

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