Senior Software Engineer

Our Team

Teradata SQLE Core Engineering team works with advance database technologies allowing us to build exciting new features that unlock business value for our customers. We are a cloud data analytics platform company, built for a hybrid multi-cloud reality, solving the world’s most complex data challenges at scale. Join the Teradata team as a Senior Software Engineer focused on building cutting-edge software for the Analytics Database for both cloud and on-prem offerings. This position is in the SQLE Database FSYS team within the SQLE Core Engineering organization. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to build new database features and extend database capabilities to allow our database enhanced functionality when compared to our competitors.

Your Business Objectives would include:
Collaborate with cross-functional agile teams that include product owners, and front-end, back-end, and quality engineers to conceptualize, build, test and ship software solutions for the next generation of enterprise applications.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Drive technical direction and design of implementations as well as providing guidance to the overall development organization.
Perform complex code modification, testing and debugging and be able to solve challenging scalability and integration problems.
Interact with engineering teams and partners to support environments handling ongoing requirements and providing one-on-one coaching to teams adopting our services.
Identify and propose areas of improvement to enhance operability throughout the software development process.

Support customers and partners diagnosing, triaging, and fixing high priority issues.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s and 5 yrs. of experience or, Masters with 3 yrs. of experience, specifically in Database technology, Operating Systems, File system, Data Storage, Distributed/Parallel/High Performance/Fault Tolerant Computer Systems/Software, or related areas

Coursework should include at a minimum discrete mathematics, software engineering, data structures and algorithms, operating systems, and computer architecture and organization, otherwise working knowledge/experience with subjects mentioned.

Proven record in completing/delivering features/products in areas mentioned above on an enterprise/system software product as an individual contributor and/or feature/project/team lead capacity.

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Strong interpersonal skills and strong teamwork.

Strong problem solving and debugging skills

Familiar with Unix (Linux) and Windows computing environment

Strong C/C++ and Python programming

An active PMC (Project Management Committee) or Committer to open sources like Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, Parquet, Spark, Hive, Delta, Presto, Trino, and Avro

Experience with block and object storage solutions

Experience with cloud-based development and systems.

Experience with SQL and database technologies including a thorough understanding of database logical and physical design concepts

Preferred Qualifications

Relational database application or internals development with working knowledge of SQL

Top-notch programming skills in C, C++, Python, SQL, Scripting

Experience with Teradata (or other RDMS) and NoSQL technologies.

Experience with public cloud services such as AWS, Azure, Google.

Experience with supporting mission critical, 24x7 systems.

Advanced coursework in database, operating systems, file systems, parallel architecture, high performance fault tolerant systems, data storage systems, I/O systems, or similar technologies/disciplines

Participated/completed projects, work experience, and research interest in areas mentioned above. Must have real product delivery and success experience.

Provided technical consultation and counsel to product and development management and technical leadership to project teams on one or more areas above in product development.

Multiuser, multi-tasking server software internals development with emphasis on concurrency and locking protocols

Working knowledge of Unix (Linux, Solaris, HPUX, AIX,…) and Windows development tools (compiler, system calls, debuggers like gdb, visual studio, etc.) and environment (i.e. shell commands and scripting, editor, MS Word, Outlook, etc.)

Experienced in developing under GIT, ClearCase or similar source control products

Effectively debug and work with low level data structures (hex dumps of data structures in memory and on storage devices)

Familiar with Software Development Life cycle and processes

Experience using Agile software development methods and tools