Staff Cloud Engineer
Teradata · Posted Oct 6
Cloud data warehousing, analytics, and enterprise artificial intelligence services
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About the role
The Platform Services team within Teradata's Vantage Core Platform Software organization builds core cloud platform services that power provisioning and lifecycle management of Teradata compute infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The team focuses on cloud native provisioning and lifecycle automation, orchestration, scaling and configuration management, serverless and event driven automation frameworks, and secure connectivity for cloud-deployed compute. This Staff Software Engineer role leads the design and architecture of these platform services and defines the architecture patterns and engineering standards used by multiple teams.
What you will do
- Lead design and architecture of core cloud platform services
- Design scalable platform capabilities supporting large scale provisioning
- Define architecture patterns and engineering standards used by multiple teams
- Build orchestration workflows using serverless and event driven services
- Develop automation for provisioning, scaling, upgrades, and teardown workflows
- Implement reliable provisioning pipelines and platform services
- Provide architectural guidance across engineering teams
- Drive engineering best practices for reliability and scalability
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong programming expertise in Python or Go.
- Experience designing and building large scale cloud native platforms on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience designing distributed systems and cloud services like container orchestration and serverless functions.
- Strong understanding of cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM), networking, and multi-region architecture.
- Experience designing infrastructure automation using cloud provider APIs/SDKs (such as AWS SDK, Azure SDK, or Google Cloud SDK) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
- Experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline with 8+ years experience
- Advanced degree with 6+ years experience
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working across multiple cloud platforms
- Experience building internal developer platforms
- Experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration systems
- Experience designing highly scalable distributed systems
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Teradata
Teradata is a global enterprise software company specializing in multi-cloud data warehousing, analytics, and artificial intelligence solutions. Its flagship offerings, including Teradata VantageCloud and ClearScape Analytics, help organizations turn enterprise data into trusted, autonomous actions. The company serves leading global enterprises across industries such as financial services, retail, healthcare, and telecommunications.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 5000-10000 employees
- Founded
- 1979
- Location
- San Diego, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
John Ederer
Chief Financial Officer
Louis Landry
Chief Technology Officer
Sumeet Arora
Chief Product Officer
Michael Hutchinson
Chief Operating Officer
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