Senior Staff Software Engineer

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform activates enterprise intelligence by unifying data, knowledge and business context to achieve tangible outcomes. With Teradata, organizations can provide agents with full context for impact when it matters. Our solution lets businesses connect and scale on premises, in the cloud, or through a hybrid approach. Teradata delivers real business value with AI.

Responsibilities / Interesting Work You’ll Do

• Candidate should have the skills to research and establish technical direction for complex feature development, and perform functional and performance problem analysis. As needed, candidate must be able to perform competitive analysis of competing database management systems and data integration solutions, and provide recommendations on Teradata offering changes to close competitive gaps and enhance competitive advantages
• Design, implement, validate, and test new database and novel query optimization features in an Agile form, and perform functional and performance analysis of code defects and correction of the defects
• Contribute to the delivery and continuous support of robust, resilient, and quality database products
• Lead and establish technical direction for a group of software engineers during feature development
• Help feature manager with technical aspects of features and projects including plan, track and provide status on large projects

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science(B. Tech) or related discipline, with at least ten years of related research or industry, or
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science(M. Tech/MCA) or related discipline, with at least eight years of related research or industry experience, or
• D. in Computer Science or related discipline, with at least five years of related research or industry experience
• Technical leadership in composing very complex and visionary idea in cloud-based data management specifically query processing and optimization

• Familiarity with various database technologies
• Deep understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) / Public Cloud technologies and operations
• Demonstrated design skills for large scale, elastic and highly available cloud database services or distributed systems
• Top-notch programming skills in C++, Java, Python, R, SQL
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, design patterns, and test driver development
• System development experience
• Debugging with complex software in a parallel processing environment
• Passionate, self-motivated, risk taker, pro-active, initiative taker, good communicator (written & verbal), creative, and team-oriented
• Experience using Agile software development methods and tools

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