Director, AI-Driven Core Database Engine

Teradata; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 113,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata in Amsterdam is seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution of Teradata's core database engine. You will shape the multi-year roadmap across the optimizer, execution runtime, and workload management, aligning AI/GenAI initiatives with high-performance workloads.

You will collaborate with senior engineering leaders and product teams across the US, Europe, and India, owning how the engine performs on native storage and cloud formats, and translating

Qualifications

• 15+ years in databases, query engines, or distributed data systems, including senior product management or equivalent principal or staff engineering experience
• Expert understanding of database internals: query planning, cost-based optimization, execution models, and MPP trade-offs
• Deep SQL expertise: a heavy SQL user with strong opinions on language design, ergonomics, and compatibility
• Hands-on performance mindset: reading query plans, designing benchmarks, and finding root causes with senior engineers
• Strong working understanding of LLMs and AI agents, and how they influence database design and ML for systems

Responsibilities

• Own the engine vision and multi-year roadmap, co-owning architecture direction with senior engineering leaders
• Lead the rethink of every core engine component for AI agents as the dominant workload
• Define optimization strategies across queries, intermediate results sharing, and approximate answers with guardrails for plan stability
• Own the benchmark suite and KPIs (latency, concurrency, plan stability, price-performance) including agentic workloads
• Own Iceberg and Delta Lake engine components (scan planning, pruning, write paths) with AI-assisted automation
• Design features to make SQL expressive yet safe, stay aligned with ANSI SQL and enable safe agent generation and execution

Skills

Databases

Query engines

SQL expertise

Performance mindset

AI/LLM awareness

Education

MS/PhD in databases or ML for systems

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

ClickHouse

Iceberg

Delta Lake

Job description

Teradata in Amsterdam is seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution of Teradata's core database engine. You will shape the multi-year roadmap across the optimizer, execution runtime, and workload management, aligning AI/GenAI initiatives with high-performance workloads.

You will collaborate with senior engineering leaders and product teams across the US, Europe, and India, owning how the engine performs on native storage and cloud formats, and translating