AI-Driven Cloud Control Plane Architect

Teradata; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Teradata is seeking a senior engineer to join its Office of the CTO, shaping the next generation of the platform. You will own the control plane, focusing on provisioning, scaling, and secure exposure across multi-environment deployments.

You will design lifecycle orchestration, build APIs and controllers, and collaborate with infrastructure engineers to ensure scalable, reliable, and coherent system behavior, with AI-assisted tools accelerating exploration and implementation.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building distributed systems or platform services.
• 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 (OIDC, SAML).
• Programming experience in a backend language (Go, Java, Python).
• Experience designing systems with scalability, reliability and cost-performance.
• Comfort working in environments where architecture boundaries are still being defined.

Responsibilities

• Design and build control plane systems for lifecycle management, orchestration, and coordination of distributed infrastructure.
• Define provisioning, scaling, and management through APIs and service-based interfaces.
• Shape system behavior around scaling, availability, and multi-environment operation.
• Design identity and access models, including integration with OIDC or SAML.
• Build or extend control mechanisms such as controllers and 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.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to define clean boundaries between system layers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

API design

System coordination

Backend programming

AI-assisted development

Scalability

Tools

Kubernetes operators

eBPF

Open-source control planes

Job description

Teradata is seeking a senior engineer to join its Office of the CTO, shaping the next generation of the platform. You will own the control plane, focusing on provisioning, scaling, and secure exposure across multi-environment deployments.

You will design lifecycle orchestration, build APIs and controllers, and collaborate with infrastructure engineers to ensure scalable, reliable, and coherent system behavior, with AI-assisted tools accelerating exploration and implementation.