Ensure your components are production-ready: define SLOs, instrument critical paths, write runbooks, and meet customer commitments on durability, availability, and performance.
Set the technical bar in code review, design review, and on-call. Be the engineer the team looks to when a problem is hard or a decision will be difficult to undo.
Mentor engineers on Postgres internals, distributed systems design, and the agentic workload patterns that make this problem different from conventional OLTP.
Who you will work with
Engineers, Product Managers, and other team members who are building data infrastructure for the agentic enterprise. We are looking for AI-native engineers who are energized by the opportunity to build technology that doesn’t exist yet — people who treat AI as a high-trust collaborator in their own work and move with an experimental mindset. Low ego, high craft, bias for shipping.
The Agentic Databases team is building a cloud-native, enterprise-grade operational database purpose-built for AI agents. We are building something more ambitious: an agentic data layer that connects enterprise-governed data, OLTP reliability, and agentic capabilities in a single platform no competitor can replicate.
What you will bring
10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, databases, or cloud data infrastructure in production.
Solid, working knowledge of Postgres: query planning and execution, MVCC, WAL, vacuuming, replication, and the extension model. You have run Postgres under real load and know where it breaks.
Strong systems programming experience in C or C++; proficiency in at least one higher-level language — Go, Ruby, or Python — for control plane and tooling work. Ruby experience is a strong plus.
Experience building high-availability, multi-tenant, or highly distributed data systems in cloud environments.
Comfort navigating large, complex codebases and leading cross-team architecture efforts.
An AI-native working style: you use AI actively in your own engineering work, prototype faster because of it, and think naturally about how the systems you build will be used by agents rather than humans.
A track record of driving projects from concept to production with measurable impact.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across engineering and product without relying on authority.
BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent depth demonstrated through production work.
Why we think you will love Teradata
We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.
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