Parallel Compute Engine Internals Engineer

Teradata Corporation (SE); Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 101,600 - 152,500; Full time

Job summary

Teradata Corporation (SE) seeks a Database Internals Engineer to help craft the next generation of a massively parallel compute engine. You will contribute to the SQL front end, plan/optimizer, and storage layers while collaborating with a small, highly skilled team inside Teradata's CTO office.

The role emphasizes end-to-end system design, rigorous testing, and performance engineering on cutting-edge hardware and distributed environments.

Qualifications

• Experience with systems programming in Rust or C/C++ with memory-safety discipline.
• Deep understanding of relational foundations and query rewrite rules.
• Hands-on experience with distributed query execution or engine internals.

Responsibilities

• Build components across the engine spine: parser, planner, optimizer, and operators.
• Develop storage substrate and file formats with robust integrity.

Skills

Rust/C++

Systems programming

Vectorized execution

Query optimization

MVCC/transactions

Tools

Criterion/Google Benchmark

Job description

Teradata Corporation (SE) seeks a Database Internals Engineer to help craft the next generation of a massively parallel compute engine. You will contribute to the SQL front end, plan/optimizer, and storage layers while collaborating with a small, highly skilled team inside Teradata's CTO office.

The role emphasizes end-to-end system design, rigorous testing, and performance engineering on cutting-edge hardware and distributed environments.