Senior Software Engineer

The Database group at Teradata Labs has an opening for Senior Software Engineer. In this role, you are expected to contribute to the design, development, and testing of new enhancements and advanced features for the Teradata SQL Engine.

Responsibilities

Responsible for all phases of agile software development life cycle from software design through customer support; Research and establish technical direction for complex feature development, and perform functional and performance problem analysis; 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; Design, implementation, and maintenance of core database kernel areas

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with at least ten years of related research or industry experience; Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with at least eight years of related research or industry experience; PhD 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 ideas in cloud-based data management specifically query processing and optimization; Familiarity with various database technologies; Top notch programming skills in C/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, proactive, initiative taker, good communicator, creative, and team oriented; Experience using Agile software development methods and tools; Demonstrated design skills for large scale, elastic and highly available cloud database services or distributed systems; Deep understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) / Public Cloud technologies and operations

Nice to have

Prior experience of working with open source project; Excellent programming/debugging skills at the Assembly level

Benefits

People-first culture; flexible work model; focus on well-being; inclusive environment