Staff Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer in Teradata Labs' Database group, designing, developing and testing new features for the Teradata SQL Engine — focused on query optimization, cloud scalability and performance analysis of an MPP database — using C/C++, Java, Python, R and SQL in an Agile environment.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Ciudad de México, Mexico
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with at least 10 years of related research or industry experience
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with at least 8 years of related research or industry experience
- PhD in Computer Science or related discipline with at least 5 years of related research or industry experience
- Technical leadership in complex, 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-driven development
- System development experience
- Debugging complex software in a parallel processing environment
- Experience using Agile software development methods and tools
- Demonstrated design skills for large-scale, elastic, 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 working with an open source project
- Excellent programming/debugging skills at the Assembly level
Full description
Our company
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.
What You’ll Do
The Database group at Teradata Labs has an opening for Staff 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
- 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
- Design, implementation, and maintenance of core database kernel areas
Who You’ll Work With
Teradata is where cutting edge innovations in data management turn into business value. Our outstanding team of database architects and software engineers work together to understand and advance emerging technologies to produce the next wave of big data analytic solutions.Teradata Database is the core of Teradata Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) systems that run on premises and in hybrid clouds to manage and optimize sophisticated workloads.
The heart of Teradata Database is its cloud based best in-class query optimization engine. We work on query optimization techniques in database and analytics engines, machine learning algorithms, scalability and elasticity issues in the cloud, and many other exciting challenges related to performance, usability, accessibility and integra