Staff DevOps Engineer at Teradata — Pune, IND | Base Career

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Our Company At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information.

That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI.

By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions.

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.

We are looking for a seasoned API Team Lead with deep Python expertise to lead our backend API engineering practice.

In this role, you will guide a team of Python developers in designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and high-performance APIs that power enterprise applications.

You will set technical direction, drive best practices in API design and software development patterns, and work cross-functionally to deliver reliable backend services aligned with business objectives.

What You'Ll Do

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Python developers, code reviews.

Architect, design, and oversee the development of scalable, secure, and high-performance RESTful and GraphQL APIs using Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Django REST Framework, or Flask.

Define and enforce API design standards, coding conventions, software development patterns, and documentation practices across the team.

Drive sprint planning, backlog grooming, and technical delivery commitments in close collaboration with product and engineering stakeholders.

Lead the design of microservices and service-oriented architectures, ensuring loose coupling, high cohesion, and independent deployability.

Oversee integration of APIs with relational (RDBMS) and NoSQL databases, ensuring efficient data modeling, query optimization, and data integrity.

Champion API security practices including authentication, authorization, input validation, rate limiting, and OWASP compliance.

Collaborate with frontend and full stack teams to define and maintain clear, versioned API contracts and developer-friendly documentation.

with asynchronous programming in Python (asyncio, Celery, message queues) for building non-blocking, high-throughput services.

Proven track record of mentoring Python developers and driving technical direction across cross-functional engineering teams.

Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD tooling, and Agile delivery using Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps.

What You'll Bring Technical Leadership — Confidence to set API architecture direction, make pragmatic design decisions, and champion engineering excellence across the Python team.

API Craft — A deep appreciation for clean, well-documented, and developer-friendly API design that balances performance, security, and usability.

Mentorship Passion — A genuine commitment to developing Python engineers through coaching, pair programming, constructive code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Pattern-Driven Thinking — A disciplined approach to applying the right software design patterns to ensure maintainable, scalable, and testable backend services.

Communication Skills — Ability to translate complex backend and API concepts clearly for frontend engineers, product managers, and non-technical stakeholders.

Ownership & Accountability — A strong sense of responsibility for team velocity, API reliability, and the overall quality of backend services in production.

Collaborative Spirit — An inclusive mindset that fosters strong working relationships across frontend, DevOps, QA, and product disciplines.

Continuous Improvement — A drive to stay current with the Python ecosystem, API tooling trends, and evolving backend engineering best practices. #LI-NT1 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.

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