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.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Customer Developer Tools (CDT) team, you’ll design, implement, and enhance the systems and tools that connect Teradata’s Autonomous Knowledge Platform to the broader developer ecosystem. You’ll work primarily in C/C++, GoSQL, and Python, contributing to features that power next-generation AI SQL capabilities, streamline developer experience, and improve database interoperability.
You will:
- Develop and optimize core products in CDT that enhance performance and customer usability.
- Work with SQL, AI SQL and GoSQL frameworks to improve query generation and execution efficiency.
- Collaborate with CDT and database engineering teams to ensure smooth integration between Autonomous Knowledge Platform and external developer environments.
- Participate in design reviews, provide feedback, and uphold engineering best practices.
- Support customer developer use cases and ensure product readiness across multi-cloud deployments.
You’ll play a critical role in strengthening Teradata’s connection with the developer community, enabling customers to innovate faster by improving how they interact with the Autonomous Knowledge Platform through intuitive, high-performance tools.
Success looks like delivering robust, maintainable, and well-tested code; collaborating effectively across teams; and consistently contributing to the evolution of Teradata’s developer ecosystem.
You’ll be part of the Customer Developer Tools (CDT) engineering organization, a team dedicated to empowering developers to build, query, and integrate efficiently with Teradata’s cloud data platform. You’ll collaborate with database core engineering, AI SQL, and GoSQL teams, partner with cloud platform engineers, and report to the Director of CDT.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- 5–8 years of software engineering experience in database systems, developer tools, or system-level programming.
- Proficiency in C/C++, Go and Python.
- Strong understanding of SQL fundamentals, database concepts, and data access frameworks.
- Experience contributing to complex, multi-component software systems.
- Experience in Teradata Database is a plus.
- Experience in developing AI agents or working with artificial intelligence technologies is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with GoSQL, AI SQL, or similar query frameworks.
- Experience developing customer-facing tools, SDKs, or extensions.
- Understanding of multi-threaded programming, performance tuning, and cloud-native environments.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across languages and platforms.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional and customer-facing teams.
- Commitment to building reliable, maintainable, and scalable software.
Why We Think You’ll 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 committed to actively working to foster an inclusive environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.
