Senior Staff Engineer, Agentic Databases

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 Senior Staff Engineer, you will Own the design and delivery of one or more of our core Agent Services — Agent Memory, LLM Cache, Semantic Context Layer — from technical design to production launch.

You will write the spec, build against it, and hold the system accountable to it in production.

• Full technical ownership of an Agent Service: design the data model, define the API surface, implement the core logic, and own it end-to-end through production.
• Lead the most critical, cross-functional technical efforts your component touches — breaking down ambiguous problems and building consensus without waiting for someone else to resolve the ambiguity.
• Function as both a problem solver and a problem finder: identify gaps in the design or the roadmap before they become production incidents.
• Balance long-term system health with the immediate need to ship — making and documenting the local trade-off decisions within the architectural direction the team has set.
• 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.