[Remote] Staff Database Internals Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Teradata is a company that empowers organizations with better information through its Autonomous Knowledge Platform. They are seeking a Staff Database Internals Engineer to join a small advanced research team focused on designing and building services for managing lifecycle and system behavior in a scalable infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and build control plane systems responsible for lifecycle management, orchestration, and coordination of distributed infrastructure
• Define how infrastructure is provisioned, scaled, and managed through APIs and service-based interfaces
• Shape system behavior around scaling, availability, and multi-environment operation
• Design identity and access models, including integration patterns with systems such as OIDC, SAML, or similar frameworks
• Build or extend control mechanisms such as controllers, coordination services, or workflow-driven provisioning systems
• Contribute to runtime-driven provisioning and lifecycle workflows that respond to system demand
• Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate development and explore implementation approaches

Skills

• Experience designing and building distributed systems, platform services, or control layers
• Strong familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures
• Experience designing APIs, service orchestration, and system coordination patterns
• Understanding of identity, access, and security models in distributed systems (e.g., OIDC, SAML, or similar)
• Programming experience in a backend language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, or similar)
• Experience designing systems with scalability, reliability, and strong cost-performance characteristics
• Comfort working in environments where architecture and system boundaries are still being defined
• Background in big data, data pipelines, or analytical platforms - understanding the scale and volume of data the underlying engine processes helps you build the right abstractions
• Familiarity with query engine or analytical database architectures (DataFusion, Trino, Presto, Spark, or similar). The control plane problems are largely engine-agnostic, but awareness of what sits below is valuable
• Experience adapting or extending open-source control planes (Kubernetes operators, custom controllers, service mesh configurations) to meet non-standard requirements
• Experience with eBPF, kernel performance tuning, or NUMA-aware hardware configuration

Benefits

• 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.

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