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The world's top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.\r\nWhat You'll Do\r\nWe are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the next generation technical vision and architecture for our core database engine, for massive scalability, elasticity, and resilience at Teradata. This role will serve with technical authority, driving innovation, influencing technology decisions across the organization, and ensuring our platform can dynamically scale to meet evolving product requirements.\r\nThe ideal candidate is an expert in databases and query engines running in an elastic cloud environment, has a deep understanding of the current market landscape, including the strengths and limitations of other cloud database providers. The candidate should also have a good knowledge of cloud capabilities and their ongoing evolution, to be able to make use of them. The ability to make use of AI to achieve better performance is a plus.\r\nDefine and evolve the architectural blueprint for a highly elastic, highly scalable and elastic cloud database.\r\nDevelop frameworks and systems that support autoscaling and cost-aware elasticity.\r\nMaintain a working understanding of cloud provider offerings (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) and relevant industry tooling, including their performance characteristics, constraints, and roadmap directions.\r\nEvaluate emerging technologies, vendor solutions, and open-source projects, identifying opportunities and gaps relative to our needs.\r\nInfluence long-term engineering strategy, collaborating with product, operations, and security teams to align architectural decisions with business goals.\r\nWho You'll Work With\r\nYou will lead a team of senior technical architects; drive technical vision and execution.\r\nWhat Makes You a Qualified Candidate\r\n15+ years in database internals, query optimization, query executions.\r\n10+ years in large-scale distributed systems in the cloud.\r\nProven track record of architecting high-scale, elastic systems.\r\nStrong communication and collaboration skills.\r\nWhat You Will Bring\r\nExperience with AI for database optimization.\r\nContributions to open-source cloud infrastructure projects.\r\nPrior Distinguished Engineer or Principal Engineer experience in a database or large-scale cloud-native organization.\r\nExperience with Teradata, Snowflake, Databricks, or other similar systems.\r\nWhy We Think You'll Love Teradata\r\nWe prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. 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